Yesterday, rumors roiled the Internet waters: Julian Assange is dead. The U.S. government finally moved in on him.
The first rumor was not true. The second … appears to be. Assange’s Internet access has been cut off, supposedly by a “state party.” Which means the U.S. fedgov even if some other state acted as its proxy.
At the same time, the UK bank accounts of the Russian state media, RT or Russia Today, were frozen without explanation. Assange is widely assumed to have gotten his damning Hillary Clinton emails from hackers associated with the Russian government.
Whatever the reality of WikiLeaks’ info source RT is friendly to Assange — though clearly he also had a source in D.C. who was conveniently and mysteriously murdered. (I try not to get lost in conspiracy theories, I really do. But the murder of Seth Rich is blatant even for the Friends of Hillary.)
Assange has been self-exiled in the Ecuadorian embassy in London more than four years because he fears the U.S. government. But how odd: Only when he finally starts releasing (yet more) dirt on Clinton does he get cut off from the world. He was prepared for this, of course. Looks as if failsafe documents will likely be released soon.
Newest rumors are that there’s about to be a raid on the embassy and that John Kerry has threatened Ecuador with “grave consequences” if Assange isn’t silenced. Unconfirmed so far.
Funny that the fedgov, which has had a warlike yet wishy-washy foreign policy under Obama, seems finally to get decisively excited only when it own most corrupt favorite feels threatened. Maybe Hillary will eventually get her wish to “drone” Assange.
Things could get really interesting, not in a good way, if it develops that the freeze on the RT accounts was also done at U.S. behest. Who was it who said you don’t go to war with Russia in winter?
How ironic that our first long-awaited and celebrated woman president (as if having a vagina mattered so much in poly-ticks) would also be our most corrupt and very likely our most personally murderous. Not to mention a warmonger on a scale unseen in decades.
These people in positions of political power strike me as being personally weak as to inner strength of character. Wrong in their views and argument, so they lash out in some form of hostility or violence against those who in effect turn on the kitchen lights, scattering the cockroaches.
That video was funny the first time I saw it — I can’t even find a smile now. Every day I wake up thinking, What next?
Does Clinton really think that a war will leave us victorious, and leave her Queen? I have to keep believing/hoping that she will lose so emphatically there will be no question of putting her finger anywhere near the buttons.
“Newest rumors are that there’s about to be a raid on the embassy and that John Kerry has threatened Ecuador with “grave consequences” if Assange isn’t silenced. Unconfirmed so far.”
I’m surprised he hasn’t been taken out before now.
so they lash out in some form of hostility or violence…
And it’s always secondhand violence. “You there, soldier or cop, YOU go with guns and risk your life to…”
Used to be one of the feminist mantras was, “Elect women to power so we’ll have peace.”
I remember responding to it once (I don’t remember the details, it was while England, under Thatcher, was at war with Argentina over the Falklands) with the current events that out of four women who were then running countries, four were fighting a war, a revolution, or both.
Of course if we elected Claire president…
[ducks, runs away]
The “failsafe” document release should have been instantaneous. If you give the bad guys time to think, they’ll forget the link between “strike at me – you die”. Corbomite, Baby!
Kent — I think the failsafe documents were already in the hands of key people on the outside and they’re the ones who’ll now determine when/how to release them. I’d guess this won’t just be a raw document dump but a means of turning journalists loose. I can see that taking a few days. Rumors are that the info will be released into the wild by Wednesday.
WikiLeaks confirms that Ecuador cut off Assange’s ‘Net access:
https://i.sli.mg/0rccDn.png
… shortly after WikiLeaks revealed the content of Clinton’s speeches to Goldman Sachs.
But of course noooooooo pressure from the U.S. could possibly have been involved and the timing is purely coincidence. After four years of bearing with Assange’s company, Ecuadorian officials finally just got tired of his … table manners. Yeah, that’s it. So they sent him to bed without his Internet for punishment.
https://file.wikileaks.org/file/
WikiLeaks is apparently releasing the failsafe documents. I don’t know how many of the endless number of files at that site are new and how many, if any, were already there. They all bear the same bogus (but so appropriate) 1984 date.