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Julian Assange: Google is 'Directly Engaged' In Hillary Clinton's Campaign (infowars.com)
An anonymous reader writes from a report via Infowars: Speaking to the "New Era of Journalism: Farewell to Mainstream" symposium, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange stated Google is "directly engaged" with the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton. Assange said, "The chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt, set up a company to run the digital component of Hillary Clinton's campaign." As reported by Quartz in late 2015, an under-the-radar startup known as "The Groundwork" was funded by Schmidt "to ensure that Clinton has the engineering talent needed to win the election." Assange went on to say that "[...] once Hillary Clinton becomes president, those people in Google, like Jared Cohen, will be placed into positions around the new Clinton presidency." Controlling the majority of the world's smart phones, Assange adds, raises even more serious concerns in light of the company's growing and monopolistic influence. "Google controls 80 percent of the smart phone market through its control of Android and if you control the device itself -- that people use to read -- then anything that they connect to through that device you have control over as well. [...] Google has gotten into bed with the Obama administration in a very significant way," Assange stated. "It is the company that visits the White House more than any other -- averaged once per week in the last 4 years."
I found this to be an interesting idea of why he isn't quitting yet. Basically, they hypothesize the Sanders is having the most excitement he's ever had in his life.....much more than the rallies in Vermont. And people are actually listening to him. All the attention is intoxicating.
Like I know if that's true.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Trump 2016. The wall will be built. LYING GOOGLE won't change this
Allahu Akhbar!! Oops, sorry, different group of fanatics. In the longer run it doesn't matter, I suspect - American democracy is seriously ill and needs to relaunch itself in a fundamental way; only it is hard to see how that can happen peacefully.
It is interesting to observe the two elections, the EU referendum in UK and the presidential elections in the US; in UK it is mostly fairly cool-headed with at least the Remain side trying to lay out a somewhat coherent, pragmatic argument, and the Leave side responding in kind, although rather more emotionally, I feel. Compare to the US elections, where things are getting ever more hysterical; and the actual election campaign hasn't even started officially yet. I don't know - where's your dignity, if you don't mind my asking?
It seems that a significant portion of Sanders supporters are not willing to vote for Clinton no matter what.
That's very abusive wording. Independents won't vote for Hillary - the second most hated major party candidate, or Drumpf - the first most hated major party candidate.
That means that "Sanders supporters" are more likely independents or unenthusiastic party members. They aren't spiteful, but uninterested in a choice between two evils Who's the lesser of two evils is still a vote for evil. That makes you evil, even if you are trying to avoid a worse evil.
Learn to love Alaska
I think the opposite.
Republicans would be so happy to have a president they will rubber stamp or be string armed by trump. Just look at how many jumped to his bandwagon and not call him out on his comments.
Where as 20% of Democrats and all Republicans don't like Hillary which is enough to grind Congress to a halt.
Remember nothing has been done the last 6 years because Republicans have done what they were voted in to do nothing. Stop Obama at all costs. Hillary will get that same treatment. Trump will strong arm his way through using the Republican ideal if you aren't with us then you are against us.
Either way both will be bad for the future. I am hoping Gary Johnson can get his name out there more. Don't normally care for libertarians but he will be the best choice come November.
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.
What we have is corporate plutocracy. Google will push it towards technocracy, which is probably a good thing. Furthermore, Google receives its revenue through targeted advertising, which requires making sure people have at least some disposable income and communication channels which make it possible to profile them.
You'll always have a corporate overlord as long as you have capitalism, so why not a reasonably enlightened one?
Forget magic. Any technology distinguishable from divine power is insufficiently advanced.
You don't have to like Assange or support him to believe what he says. I'm sure there are a lot of people fact checking right now and if we don't hear any rebuttals, we can assume he's more or less right.
We're all media whores now that social media is a thing ;)
Re: "they are charging him for rape" -- No they aren't. No charges have been made.
Two women filed complaints of "sexual misconduct," which the UK doesn't recognise as a crime. Sweden has some very progressive, pro-feminist laws to protect women from being sexually exploited, which is a good thing, but in this case, the law is being abused.
One of the women has since withdrawn her complaint.
Extraditing Assange under these circumstances would be unprecedented under UK legal history.
This is one of many reasons why several countries offered Assange political asylum.
The UK is also breaking international treaties by not allowing Assange safe passage to his country of asylum.
There's more than likely a sealed indictment against Assange in the US and Sweden would more than likely agree to extradite him to the US.
Looking at recent history, there's a very real likelihood that Assange wouldn't get a fair trial in the US.
Also, looking at recent history, Assange would more than likely be subjected to cruel, degrading, and inhuman treatment, and possibly torture in the US.
Assange's main crime is investigative journalism that led to some very powerful people getting embarrassed. Assange will more than likely continue to be persecuted and vilified as a "lesson" to anyone else considering doing some effective investigative journalism.