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WIKILEAKS HAS BLAMED the Ecuadorean embassy for cutting off internet access to Julian Assange under the supposed orders of the United States government.
Assange, a staunch critic of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, has been accused of turning Wikileaks into a prop for Trump, and becoming the best friend of the Republican nominee, due to his increasingly high-profile attempts to influence the US presidential election.
He has been living in Ecuador’s embassy to the UK in London for the past four years, due to rape charges in Sweden.
Assange has said that Trump’s openness is part of his “charismatic appeal”, and has defended his reluctance to leak hacked material from Donald Trump, which has prompted criticism from supporters like Peter Tatchell.
In July, Wikileaks released 20,000 private emails from the Democratic National Committee, forcing the resignation of DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a Clinton supporter.
Yesterday, Wikileaks accused unknown state actors for disrupting Assange’s web lifeline in the Ecuadorean embassy. It appears to have concluded that those responsible are in the embassy itself, right under Assange’s nose.
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Today, Wikileaks has also said that John Kerry, Clinton’s successor as United States Secretary of State, asked Ecuador to stop Assange publishing documents hacked from Clinton’s emails on 26 September.
A cyber-espionage specialist, Assange has been claiming asylum at London’s Ecuadorean embassy since 2012 in order to avoid extradition over sex assault allegations.
The anti-secrecy organisation said in a tweet: “We have activated the appropriate contingency plans.”
Assange has been hiding in the Ecuadorean Embassy in central London for more than four years in a bid to avoid returning to Sweden to face rape charges.
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Ecuador has reportedly refused to respond to what it termed “speculation” on Twitter, vowing to continue to protect their long-term guest with political asylum.
The Wikileaks claim follows the latest emails it disclosed after it hacked of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta’s emails.
It released three transcripts on Saturday of Clinton’s paid speeches to Goldman Sachs.
The organisation’s consistent search for material that may prove damaging to Clinton’s bid to be president has seen it win many Trump supporters. Fox News is often the first to broadcast Wikileaks allegations. The latter reciprocates by retweeting their reports.
Donald Trump had previously called on Russia to hack into Hillary Clinton’s emails.
Assange denies Sweden’s rape allegation and says he fears that if he were sent to Sweden to face trial, he could be extradited to the United States to be tried over WikiLeaks’ publication of thousands of classified documents.
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Journal staff lost their internet connection too maybe ? Might explain why they don’t know anything about Wikileaks
The problem with the wikileaks stuff is that it’s relevant but really boring. Why report on that when the other guy is boasting about grabbing p***y.
@Peter King: you mean the comments he made years ago that just happened to surface at election, and all those poor innocent women who he was all over who never went to the police or came forward but suddenly a few weeks before the election they appear and guess what, every main station in America runs the stories over and over and over even though the most frightening information is coming out from Wiklieaks about criminal behaviour corruption and collusion with the media, banks corporations and nobody is interested ??? it is scary stuff
Spot on
There have been allegations about Trump for years. Are you saying that he never did the thing he admits to doing on tape? He was just trying to be cool so he made it all up.
@Peter King: you said it yourself “allegations”. BIll CLinton settled with ONE of his victims. Strange that Michelle Obama was never too worried about Clintons sexual predatory behaviour but can’t obtain her emotions about Trumps words. Not buying it. Sorry
Did hillary say she grabbed anybody by the pussy
He admits to doing it on tape so there’s a bit more than allegations. Also name me one other polition where their spouse is fair game to attack.
Mr Magoo. Nobody came forward about Jimmy Saville’s abuse until after his death. Why? Fear of not being believed was one the main reasons. The same could apply to Trumps accusers. The fact the he himself admitted to it may have given them the courage to come forward.
Why should they report on the mutterings of a suspected rapist cowering in an embassy from the consequences of his actions? He clearly has no regard for the law or accountability himself.
He does have a point about grabbing the pu**y… if you kiss them first it’s all good…
He owned up to it in no uncertain terms. Then boasted how easy it is to get away it. That’s all you need to know.
@mr magoo: https://t.co/uKh5sCFfrv
The Obama administration and entire American apparatus are doing everything they can to ensure a smooth transition to what they believe is a safe pair of hands, Hillary’s.
Rightly or wrongly they’re using everything at their disposal, making sure the various Trump transgressions surface at just the right time etc. But the problem of course is that he doesn’t play by any standard rules and then there’s Assange and Wikileaks you risks putting a serious dent into Hillary’s campaign. Especially if he has more to come.
And that’s what’s believed to be the case. It’s widely rumoured that Russia has the goods on Hillary and Bill, and through third parties they either have or will leak these to Wikileaks. And Putin’s motovation is simple, America and Saudi Arabia have reduced the price of oil so low and imposed sanctions because of Putins military action in the Ukraine that it has seriously weakened Russia’s economy. Russia cannot survive. The oligarch’s wealth within Russia is now seriously threathened, and consequently so is Putin himself.
If he can destabilise the Middle East enough to drive the price of oil back up he can save his country, his oligarchs wealth – and his own skin. The problem is that he’s betting everything on being able to do this, he’ll fight on every front, cyber, Syria, Russian battleships in the Med.
For Putin having Trump in the White House would be great, unlikely but great, he’ll settle for creating chaos during the election. For him right now Syria is the real prize.
@Rusty Balls: podesta 11 out now.
@mr magoo:
How is this: “the most frightening information is coming out from Wiklieaks about criminal behaviour corruption and collusion with the media, banks corporations” relevant to the presidential election?
- Yes, Wikileaks has a lot of juicy leaks published, including illegally obtained material, and some of this information points to criminal behaviour on parties exposed.
- Yes, Trump is a racist, misogynist, xenophobe, authoritarian, and a serial liar who puts his foot in it on a daily basis – hence “the media” write about it – he’s supposed to be a presidential candidate, not a raging village idiot.
- Yes, Clinton is a professional career politician.
Again, how is your sweeping remark relevant in the context of Trump / Clinton / presidential election?
Do you have anything specific at all that is “criminal behaviour corruption and collusion” (that isn’t taken from a conspiracy nut job website, but say, Wikileaks)?
Just curious.
/j.
Wiki leaks said the embassy were ASKED to turn off the wifi. They are allowed to ask. Btw a suspected sex pest supporting a confirmed sex pest? I am shocked!
Because Ecuador normally listens to the US. If they did, Assange’s arse would have been booted out of the Embassy three years ago and he’d have been extradited to face the music for his alleged rape offences.
Clintons and Obamas are very scared of Wikileaks, wonder what other criminal behaviour will be exposed, but they don’t really need to worry as there seems to be a media blackout on anything Wikileaks so that’s ok then.
Mr Magoo you could throw in the bush family as well,think about it everyone the bush’s Obama’s Clinton’s have ruled America the last 30 years in presidency,its people are been hoodwinked
“I hate checking my email every morning but I love checking John Podesta’s” – zerohedge
The Clinton’s are truly evil.
Kids?
@Fake Avast: exactly Fake. The liberal lefties are the new fascists. You cannot say anything for being labelled sexist, racist, mysogonist and all the rest , That’s how they shut you up and curtail your freedom of speech and now they don’t seem to know that our right to information without censorship is being eroded. the Clinton cheering media are hoping that the rest of us are too dumb to notice that we are only getting one side of the story ?? No matter how much you hate Trump surely her supporters must be able to at least acknowledge the bias in the media and address it ?? Isn’t that what democracy is about ?
MrMagoo> Can’t say anything for being labelled a sexist, racist etc.? Really? If you actually say something sexist like Trump it is correct to call him a sexist. There isn’t any ambiguity about what he has said. You are right that SOME people use labels and reststrict rational discussion. In Trump’s case he has been labeled correctly. The bias in the media as you put it is more to do with him repeating and doubling down on comments. There doesn’t need to be a plan or bias as generally they are reporting precisely what he said with recordings or tweets. Like his apology that he released and effectively retracted it the next day by dismissing it as locker room talk. That is news worthy of reporting. Trump’s apology for the birthed issue was Trump trying to play the media as was the women he brought out before the last debate. His techniques aren’t working like the used to so him and supporters like you blame the media. His own words are causing the media issues not bias.
@mr magoo: Is your definition of free speech being allowed to say racist things or lies perhaps, o rmaybe some homophobic ramblings or misogyny?
Apropos of nothing, but I just can’t put my finger on it, the vast majority of Trump supporters i have encountered display either racist or xenophobic traits or homophobic ones, have scant regard for women and are generally simple minded people who think that the worlds problems can be solved overnight and/or are caused by one event – the other Trump supporters are white supremacists. What a lovely bunch of people.
Old Gabby Johnson. Is it any wonder the term “deplorables” is sticking. Yesterday it was the “big bad Clinton’s” who shut off Julian’s internet… even after Wikileaks themselves say it wasn’t there’s still a conspiracy, today it’s the “mainstream media”. As if pulling links off conspiracy websites or Facebook posts or even Wikileaks is somehow getting your news from unbiased sources.
My question is do they really think the Americans are dumb enough to think it’s Assange that is actually publishing?
You completely lost me as soon as you said liberal lefties ….
Didn’t stop the leaks another batch yesterday. Great reading
The crème of journalistic integrity in play again I see, well done.
It’s terrible that MSM are not telling the public the truth.
Julian, if you’re reading this….
He could be,this happened yesterday morning.Probably up and running again.
Good, I hope so, I would imagine he finds the broadband handy
This kind of bursts a lot of people’s bubble. They would have loved to blame the US or the UK authorities for it. But now it transpires that it is the Ecuadorian’s themselves have cut him off. Strange that someone like Assange who proports to hate US big business and the Federal Government would so openly support a member of that very same Big Business in the form of Trump. Would it be because his paymaster Vladimir also supports Trump? And never once has Wikileaks even attempted to release any damaging material about Russia or the Putin Government. Yet none of his supporters find that odd.
@Mick Jordan: have you ever read wikileaks. Guessing you haven’t with your comment.
WikiLeaks has been victorious over every legal (and illegal) attack, including those from the Pentagon, the Chinese Public Security Bureau, the Former president of Kenya, the Premier of Bermuda, Scientology, the Catholic & Mormon Church, the largest Swiss private bank, and Russian companies. WikiLeaks has released more classified intelligence documents than the rest of the world press combined.
- War, killings, torture and detention
- Government, trade and corporate transparency
- Suppression of free speech and a free press
- Diplomacy, spying and (counter-)intelligence
- Ecology, climate, nature and sciences
- Corruption, finance, taxes, trading
- Censorship technology and internet filtering
- Cults and other religious organizations
- Abuse, violence, violation
Russian Private Companies. But it has never released a single piece of damaging info on Putin or his government.
Ah Russia, Russia. Deflection 101 . It wasn’t a problem until it was Clinton. Now it is . Really pathetic but not surprising.
@Mick Jordan: pity Mick. your not concerned about the content of the emails. Do they not matter?
Little one, with that list you could be talking about Russia. Are they paying you?
@dublinlad: are you 2. Ever hear of Wikipedia. You should check it out.
LITTLEONE, illegally obtained Information is inadmissible in court so in a way the leaks have guaranteed that there will be no criminal charges.
Those that make accusations Dublin lad are usually those that are the ones doing it themselves.
Are you being paid to make ridiculous accusations?
A little reading for you Littleone. https://20committee.com/2015/08/31/wikileaks-is-a-front-for-russian-intelligence/
Btw. Littleone I am no supporter of Clinton either. The US is f**ked for the next 4 years if either is elected.
: Ah at least Dave. Your admitting the emails contain information that should have people in court . That they contain criminal behaviour.
Mick. Oh dear lord is all I can say
Littleone. Can you show us where Wikileaks has released info about the Russian Government? Wikileaks themselves say that they have such material but for some reason have never released it. Why?
Mick. You obviously have a hard one for Russia so away you go. Does it not bother you the content of what has been released? Why not? If Russia upsets you so much but you will ignore what the content of the emails that so far far have been released. Then what can I say.
Your obviously someone that ignores what doesn’t suit and deflects to Russia. Boring now.
So good luck Mick to you on your Russian crusade.
Me I will read whatever they release.
Don’t care who they are about. Where they came from but will look at the content that is contained.
So basically you agree that they have never released a single piece of info about Russia and yet you don’t find that odd. Nor the fact the Assange asked the Ecuadorian’s to allow an FSB security detail into the Embassy to act has his personal security (which they refused). That Wikileaks go to extreme lengths to hide who finances them. Odd for an anti privacy Web site don’t you think.
Mick there is a lot they haven’t released hopefully in the future they will. But it’s not just Russia. It’s many governments. Where were the Russian howlers when the diplomatic cables were released. Nowhere.
Where where the Russian howlers when they released on iraq. Nowhere.
Maybe Mick you should do some reading. Surprising what you read.
https://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://wikileaks.org/About.html&ved=0ahUKEwiH7o3imuTPAhWrK8AKHao_CBAQFggpMAI&usg=AFQjCNHNV2PtaMUclKyin6FV9z7MsqE1-w&sig2=oRT88eg6QNG0g9urrIjx2w
Why wait? They are always ready and willing to release info on Western Governments without delay. Why so protective of Russian Government wrong doing?
@Mick Jordan: I Think @littleone has a little hard-on for Putin and how Innocent Russia and Trump is, just did you pay attention to the emails? I find Putin a very strong term, i think everyone should use the term Chamber-Pot when describing him.
LITTLEONE, the hackers can still be arrested and tried. Wikileaks has done very well to ensure that their sources are the only ones that can be implicated. FOX reporting Assange will be arrested in the next few hours, hopefully not
Dave. Kind of difficult to arrest the hackers when they are in Russia. As we have seen Putin wouldn’t even extradite those involved in the radiation poisoning case in London. And how will Assange be arrested unless the Ecuadorian’s expel him from the Embassy?
Attack the source . Ignore the contents. Blame game 101. Russia bad but ok to sell uranium too.
Wikileaks bad but brilliant when it was bush ,. Clintonites are go
They have been going a decade and never a mention of Russia till now. It’s deflection.
You must have missed the part about trump.
What assange has said about trump.
We do have some information about the Republican campaign,” he said Friday, according to The Washington Post.
I mean, it’s from a point of view of an investigative journalist organization like WikiLeaks, the problem with the Trump campaign is it’s actually hard for us to publish much more controversial material than what comes out of Donald Trump’s mouth every second day,” Assange said.
“I mean, that’s a very strange reality for most of the media to be in.”
Assange also said earlier this month WikiLeaks is eager for information it can publicly release about Trump.
“If anyone has any information that is from inside the Trump campaign, which is authentic, it’s not like some claimed witness statement but actually internal documentation, we’d be very happy to receive and publish it,” he said in an Aug. 17 interview aired on NPR’s “Morning Edition.”
Actually Littleone I have always brought up Wikileaks lack of info on Putin and his government when talking about Wikileaks. This is nothing new as any regular commentators on the Journal know.
LITTLEONE, I haven’t mentioned Russia. I merely pointed out that whatever stolen information wikileaks provides to the public is inadmissible in a court of law and therefore the only punishable act in any of it is the stealing of said information.
Are you forgetting his earlier stance? http://www.cbsnews.com/news/jimmy-carter-wikileaks-helps-no-one-but-hurts-diplomatically/
Dublinlad, judging by the amount of time LittleOne spends on this site it’s not the Russians paying him, it’s probably the Irish taxpayers.
@Poole Hyde: getting personal and dirty pool Hyde. Going low.. what’s that say about you that your also on here. Who is paying you. ? I suffer from a chronic disability . What’s your excuse?
Would be great if people would stop commenting on how often other people comment and actually look at what they say.
And yet you’re perfectly able to sit in front of a computer all day…
@Poole Hyde: nothing wrong with my hands you fool. What’s your reason. ? Computer. Ever hear of tablets , phones . They exist too. Low blows. Says something on your character. Something else.
You are both attacking people for having time to comment. It’s just stupid.
So basically littleone, you’re a lock in who spends all their time online ?
@Poole Hyde:
So if Little One does have a chronic disability which is entirely plausible, you are attacking a disabled person for spending time online. Well, that just makes you the crap stained pimple, on the arse of the universe, Poole, a deplorable, despicable, horrid, troglodyte of the most heinous kind.
Oh dear.. do the Trump supporters not like personal attacks all of a sudden? I didn’t know they were such “delicate little snowflakes “. Oh well I guess there’s no harm done after all “they’re only words” after all.
And yet littleone had no qualms about smearing Hillary for her supposed health issues.
@Pádraig Ó Raghaill: they are some pieces of work. It what they are good at personal insults and jibes. Have been on the journal for years and my health is not something I hide. Anyone that knows me on the journal for years would know that. The fact I have to post to disprove these fools is sad .
LITTLEONE
Apr 28th 2016, 10:06 AM # 32 393
Ridiculous… I do have to go to St James as an adult coming up from Offaly and it can be a nightmare, can’t imagine what it going to be like for sick children coming from all parts if the country,,, should have been off the m50 …..
LITTLEONE
Apr 28th 2016, 10:34 AM # 15 165
Don’t think people traveling with sick children, or others coming from outside dublin are too concerned if the luas is on strike or not… Because its going to be a nightmare with traffic congestion…. As I know I don’t use the luas when I attend because I wouldn’t be able to travel on it after treatment……
http://www.thejournal.ie/childrens-hospital-planning-permission-2739725-Apr2016/
LITTLEONE
Oct 10th 2016, 10:14 AM # 10 171
No because after tomorrow’s budget. I will still be waiting 3 years to see a specialist in tullamore
http://www.thejournal.ie/poll-budget-2-3018656-Oct2016/
It’s awful when anyone if attacked because of their health – Hillary Clinton no less than you.
@Graham Kavanagh: Its even funnier when someone with ” health issues” themselves would support someone who insults a person with disabilities .https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX9reO3QnUA
James o keefe posted an interesting video last night about dnc corruption
Wikileaks used to something good and now its just a joke. Yeah support a guy who is literally cowering in an embassy for 4 YEARS who is charged with Rape, i can guarantee you if he had raped one of their family members they wouldnt be so supportive.
They wont try and hack / leak Trumps emails but go on an all out attack on the Clinton’s, yeah guys showing that you stand for everyone and dont have your own shitty agenda wrapped up in your own deluded “vision” of what you think is right. The people who run this have no idea what it takes to run a country, have their faces in public, be help accountable. They all just run and hide behind their keyboards like little warrios thinking they are doing the world some good but havent seen copped on to how the world works and the actual threats.
@shane mooney: You must have missed the part about trump.
What assange has said about trump.
We do have some information about the Republican campaign,” he said Friday, according to The Washington Post.
I mean, it’s from a point of view of an investigative journalist organization like WikiLeaks, the problem with the Trump campaign is it’s actually hard for us to publish much more controversial material than what comes out of Donald Trump’s mouth every second day,” Assange said.
“I mean, that’s a very strange reality for most of the media to be in.”
Assange also said earlier this month WikiLeaks is eager for information it can publicly release about Trump.
“If anyone has any information that is from inside the Trump campaign, which is authentic, it’s not like some claimed witness statement but actually internal documentation, we’d be very happy to receive and publish it,” he said in an Aug. 17 interview aired on NPR’s “Morning Edition.”
@shane mooney: I wouldn’t support a family member who had consensual sex with someone and then turned around and cried rape for him not wearing a condom. The “victim” or victims admit it was consensual. I suggest you read the whole story. The rape accusation made against him would not even be investigated in any other country. Not only that Swedish police released him as clear to leave the country after questioning with no case to answer. Only later when a certain lawyer with US money got involved it was revived. Even now they only want him to answer questions, not charges. He has offered to answer all questions in the embassy but they want him back in Sweden. We all know why as the US prosecutors have said he will fry when they get him as they have been told to expect him.
As for Trump and Clinton, yep, Trump has lots of dirty skeletons hanging around and is a pig and a bully but as far as we know he doesn’t have blood on his hands. The Clintons however do. If you have time to read the leaks the picture that emerges is not pretty. It would appear that you think that politicians who have power can do exactly what they want , take money for influence, fund terror, leave brave men to die and lie when asked about it and that is acceptable? is that your idea of democracy? At least now politicians are being forced to examine the way they operate as they cannot guarantee they can hide things or who they are really working for. That is progress and will raise standards. The old ways have to die. History will judge Wikileaks better than politicians.
Patrick. If he is as innocent as you claim then why run from a trial? And please don’t use the extradition excuse as the US could have had him at any stage he was on Bail in the UK so that excuse just doesn’t fly.
@Mick Jordan: The excuse does fly actually. Politically the UK wouldn’t have allowed extradition as it would have met too much public and legal opposition. As for a trial, Sweden will not give a cast iron guarantee that he won’t be extradited to the US. He has said he will go for trial the next day if they give that guarantee and they won’t. That says it all about what is going on.
Sorry Patrick it doesn’t. A charge of Espionage from the US would have gotten him extradited so fast his feet wouldn’t have touched the ground especially from the US’s closest ally the UK. But yet nothing from the US. Not one single request to either the UK or Sweden.
@Mick Jordan: Sorry Mick, but you’re wrong on that. Even prominent members of the cabinet said that one thing they probably wouldn’t do was to extradite Assange to the US. The public at that time was and still is very anti-US when it comes to extraditions because of the one-sided treaty. It’s rendition he has to be scared of. As you know requests for extradition only come when they know they will be accepted. They were hopping mad over the McKinnon affair as they were told they would get him. The US couldn’t request extradition from Sweden unless he was physically there either. He was actually due for rendition from Sweden in reality.
Patrick. The vast majority of the UK public have never been Anti US as you put it. And if the US had made a charge of Espionage against Assange the UK Government would find it extremely difficult to deny the US and still keep such a close relationship. So as I said that excuse just won’t fly no matter how many feathers you stick on it.
I’m sure he’s having a good laugh about this using one of his regular supply of 4g encrypted phones. He’s probably been using all the neighbours wifi without them knowing too. If the story gets the Yanks off the Ecuadorians back then fair enough.
Patrick. Using a mobile he would still require a UK cellular network. And if you think GCHQ couldn’t block it at any stage you are kidding yourself. If he is using a satellite phone then he would either have to use a Western Satellite which would have the same effect or a Russian one which would lead to questions as to why the FSB would supply him with an encrypted Russian Satellite Phone.
@Mick Jordan: He’s changing them every day and getting new ones all the time…so I hear. He went through 18 sims in one day apparently. He’s been doing video interviews all over the world that way. It normally takes a few hours for them to lock on to the right one with all the other signals firing at the same time and either block or monitor it otherwise they could take down all the ambassadorial communications. Then there’s also his visitors who have “legitimate” phones that get used all the time. It’s an unwritten etiquette that they turn on their hotspots when they go in. He’s also been using other encrypted wifi mobile repeaters that move locally. Monitoring is pretty useless as he’s no kid when it comes to encryption. GCHQ have a large amount of staff trying to shut him up and if they were capable of doing it permanently then they would have done it by now. Ironically they apparently offered him a job years ago as they realised he, or his people had got into them. Either way he has to use limited communication now as the wikileaks infrastructure is functioning without him and he’s really only advisory and spokesman as opposed to being a hacker now and the amount of information he needs to move really only takes a nanosecond or two.. As for Russian equipment he has refused offers apparently because of the obvious implications. Anyway, as I said, it’s just a story for political ends.
It still requires the use of the UK Cell network. He can change sim cards 100 times a day it would make no odds. He is still using the same Cell Towers as his position is fixed within the Embassy. So few hours I don’t thinks so, a few seconds would be more accurate.
@Mick Jordan: I understand all that. It works and we know it does. His position wouldn’t be fixed either and tracking an individual device can only be accurate from the signal to the max of 25 metres in any court of law unless the GPS is also turned on. It also depends on the antennae and whether they are directional. Several people have spoken about the issues from GCHQ both anonymously and not so anonymously. It was likened to the Jasper Carrott story of him trying to deal with the moles under his lawn. As you know the building also houses the Colombian Embassy, so knocking out or monitoring phones in that building would result in some high level diplomatic problems. I know the building well actually, being born about 250 metres away myself. Interfering with communications in that area at all would result in some serious problems.
Patrick. So you know GCHQ are capable of and aren’t. Would you care to share how you came by this knowledge? As for his position not being fixed. Since when has he left the Embassy? He is contained inside that single building and I doubt even the the Ecuadorian’s don’t allow him roam at will into whatever room he chose. So yes he is in a fixed position.
@Mick Jordan: Most of the “knowledge” I have imparted here is in the public domain and can be found if you’re interested, know where to look and have lots of time. As for the building, he does move around it pretty much at free will apart from going into the Colombian Embassy. The facade of the building looks small but there is a lot behind it as is normal for those buildings. Given that signal tracing can’t be accurate to within less than 25 metres then he has a lot to play with as that building is more than 50 metres deep. Many of those buildings have cellars that interconnect with others and exterior exits. He has also been allowed up on the roof to get some rays for health reasons. I know that type of Embassy building quite well having spent the very early part of my life in one. We lived in Grosvenor Gardens on the floor below where the Iranian Siege happened, luckily before that, but my mother said she wished she could have done it herself. That’s the business my father worked in. Anyway, I’ve had enough of Embassies and espionage for one day thank you Mick lol.
@Patrick J. O’Rourke:Ahh so now GCHQ are making their technology public is that what you are saying?
Problem is when wiki leaks starts selectively publishing information. Then it’s no better or worse than the press.
He’s like a naughty teenager, his parents have taken his internet away.
That big revelation of Hillary’s emails was a joke! My emails with my family members have more dirt in them
@Dave McCrea: Did you read them all?
@Patrick J. O’Rourke: I bet his family didn’t!
Typical US ‘Dirty War”
Wikileaks gas gone from an independent fact checker to a pawn in the deep pockets of Donald Trump. Suspicious that they never hack Trumps emails and Fox News gets the exclusive to the Clinton releases. Ahhhh that’s the conspiracy Trump talks about. Never mind Trump and Assange destroying the Republican party but now they intend on tearing America apart.
Assange may as well come out. At least if he is extradited, there will be much larger support for him than there is currently. Becoming a martyr tends to do that.
What kind of life does he have now and what’s his end game? Can’t be a trump presidency because I doubt trump or his supporters will go easy on an enemy of the united States.
News currently emerging that Assange was using his internet connection to send “dick pics” to an 8 year old boy.
That could set the cat among the pigeons.
@Mick Jordan: Apologies, he was sending them to an 8 year old girl … allegedly.
@Damocles: Jaysus, it’s back to village gossip formula now. I’m sure they’ll come up with whatever it takes yet.
@Damocles: from that link.
Toddandclare joined the UN’s Global Compact program in May 2016 and was delisted on October 12th — the reason given is “Other reason related to the Integrity Measures”. This angered the company — they consider this to be “defamatory” (
>”It is our firm conviction that our learned colleagues at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights have made an error in supporting Mr Assange.
Toddandclare (T&C Network Solutions) filed a report to the UN asking them to essentially reconsider their support of Assange (earlier this year a UN Working Group made a decision that Assange’s “detention” was “arbitrary” and that he should be released and compensated). That link is to a google cache of the document, as the UN removed it from their site and redirected the link to a generic page.
Toddandclare in an October 11 press release said they “started UK court proceedings in October 2016 against Julian Assange, with UK court reference C9QZ4K3T
The above lawsuit relates to breach of contract.
Seems more to this story than meets the eye.
Considering toddandclare have been delisted from un
@LITTLEONE: I’m just passing this on. I’m not telling you what to think.
Note the resemblances between Assange and Trump: both vain, both paranoid, both incapable of accepting blame, both sexual assailants of women, both clever in some ways but deeply stupid in others…
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