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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."
No company gets the breadth of google without getting in bed with the government.
And yet.. Somehow.. He seems to care more about the manipulation of democracy than you do..
Interesting. Isn't it.
Trump is a childish idiot.
Clinton is a corrupt weasel.
Good luck America. Really. It's going to be rough.
Microsoft was selling secrets to the NSA before Google was even founded. Where do you think the NSA got the idea to start Google anyway?
OP here; yes he did lose big indeed. But this doesn't change the Trump vs {Clinton|Sanders} setup. Sanders still has the upper hand in polls against Trump.
It seems that a significant portion of Sanders supporters are not willing to vote for Clinton no matter what. They either don't vote or vote for Trump. But Clinton supporters, on the other hand, seem to be willing to vote for Sanders even if Clinton lost the nomination.
But yeah, it's obvious that Clinton has accumulated so much political capital and influence that she'll blow through the rest of this circus and secure the nomination. She's got so much dirt on her, though, that I have no faith in her ability to win the election. There's also that 1-5% chance she'll get indicted for her email debacle. Hell, even if she *doesn't* get indicted, it's still bad for her (makes her look like a corrupt snake squirming away from legal troubles). It sucks when there's only bad choices, ain't it?
I suspect he isn't quitting because he can still win. It involves all the superdelegates switching sides, but it can still happen.
Now why would the superdelegates switch to Bernie? Well, the FBI hasn't finished their investigation in Hillary Clinton's time as Secretary of State yet...
Go directly to jail, do not pass Go(ogle)
I'm not convinced. Trump is an egomaniac who would likely spend most of his term fighting with congress and failing to get anything done. Hillary is a corrupt establishment authoritarian who knows the system well enough to actually achieve things (though things that are good for the people are not very high on her to-do list). I think I'd prefer that the US had an inept clown as President than someone who is effective but actively malicious.
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I don't know - where's your dignity, if you don't mind my asking?
I don't know, concealed carried ?
I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of killer sig, which this margin is too narrow to contain.
This story is the first time I have thought 'trump can't be worse than that cunt'.
Then I read comments from trump supporters.
America, you are so fucked.
He's only 6 years older than Clinton. She's 68.
Maybe, but I can barely make out what you're saying because your horse is too high.
He is hiding from Sweden. The country known for neutrality.
Ummm... Did you perhaps mean Switzerland? Then again, I don't think Assange is hiding from the Swiss.
That 'sw' combination at the beginning of a word can be confusing. Of course, so can that 'wh' combination. You know, as in whore...
'The Economy' is a giant Ponzi scheme whose most pitiable suckers are the youngest among us and the yet-unborn.
Good thing we aren't giving any credence to any wingnut conspiracy sites.
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The EU referendum in the UK has been a total disaster. The Leave side in particular just spews lies and half truths, repeating them often enough for them to become facts in some people's minds. I mean easily verifiable lies too, completely bare faced.
The worst part are the voters though. You hear endless moronic complaints. "We just want the facts", as if there is someone out there with a crystal ball who can see all possible futures and tell them exactly what will happen in either case. Are these people shocked when the weather forecast turns out to be wrong? Well, presumably not, because the other standard argument is that anyone who has ever been wrong about anything ever cannot be trusted. Apparently they only want to listen to those people making economic predictions who have never been wrong, if only the biased liberal media would allow them on TV...
I heard someone complaining that she didn't know who here MEPs are or who to vote for when the European elections come round. Literally complaining that she is too ignorant to vote and unable to do anything about it, like google the answer.
The whole thing has become dominated by memes. You have the "get rid of red tape" meme, that always avoids mentioning exactly what red tape they want to get rid of because a) all red tape is bad, even the stuff that covers that gap in the fence by the cliff, and b) it's workers rights and occupational safety, lead in paint etc, the stuff that costs businesses money. Then you have the particularly nasty "immigrants are responsible for everything that's wrong" meme that seems to ignore recent history, and the "I know how to fly this plane better than you" meme about taking back control from Brussels.
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If the FBI hasn't got anything yet regarding the private server I very much doubt it will ever be a real issue beyond some poo for republicans to fling at her.
The FBI has enough evidence that they believe is cause for an indictment. The Department of Justice is just sitting on it and not pursuing the indictment. Why would they? Why would the Democrat lead DoJ do something that would wreck the candidacy of their party's Presidential candidate?
The larger risk to Hillary right now isn't even the email scandal. It's perjury and that's why there's pushes to get Obama to issue a preemptive pardon to Hillary for whatever crimes she may have committed. A charge of perjury is not likely to be taken lightly because it can easily be played into the lying politician bias that most people have.
The whole thing is sleazy and it's showing just how incestuous DC can be.
"Lack of speed can be overcome. In the worst case by patience." --Znork
So what do you do to control immigration? Who decides who enters the country: the citizens or non-citizens?
If you're scared of your govt then you need to further restrict its powers
Vote 3rd Party in 2016 and beyond
Glad they are picking the better side.
Easy to say that if you do most of your research using Google.
To see the bias in an easy visible way, just look at the candidate photos they use for Hillary vs Trump on the primary results page.
And then click on the candidates and see the 3 pics they have on the side to represent
Hillary
https://www.google.com/search?...
Trump
https://www.google.com/search?...
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.
This:
The Leave campaign consists entirely of lies. The Remain campaign has some good arguments, but that is apparently not good enough, they have to have lies too.
The latest Leave meme is that we will not be safe in our beds because the EU won't let us deport foreign convicted criminals. They fail to mention
a) that is false
b) the majority of crime in Britain is committed by British people
c) deporting criminals just dumps the problem on somebody else. Raped and murdered French people are not somehow worth less than raped and murdered British people.
d) if we leave the EU, we'll have to take back all the British criminals that foreign countries are trying to get rid of but can't because of this mythical EU regulation.
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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.