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Assange Internet Link Cut By State Actor, Claims Wikileaks (rt.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report by RussianToday: WikiLeaks has activated "contingency plans" after its co-founder's internet service was intentionally cut off by a state actor, the media organization said in a tweet. The internet is one of the few, if not only, available ways for Julian Assange, who has been locked up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London for more than four years, to maintain contact with the outside world. Facing extradition to Sweden over allegations of rape, which he denies, the Australian computer programmer has been holed up in the embassy in West London since 2012. He claims the extradition is actually a bid to move him to a jurisdiction from which he can then be sent to the US, which is known to be actively investigating WikiLeaks. The unverified claims of state sabotage come as WikiLeaks continues to release damaging documents, most recently thousands of hacked emails from Hillary Clinton's campaign manager John Podesta.
Still believe his line of bullshit?
Is Barack Obama interfering with the election process by cutting off free speech that can be damaging to Clinton and the democrats? Sure can't blame that one on the Russians.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
DrumpfLeaks has activated "contingency drumpfs" after its co-drumpf's internet service was intentionally cut off by a state actor, the media organization said in a tweet. The internet is one of the few, if not only, available ways for Julian Assdrumpf, who has been locked up in the Ecuadrumpfian Embassy in Londrumpf for more than four years, to maintain contact with the outside world. Facing extradition to Swedrumpf over allegations of rape, which he denies, the Australian computer programmer has been holed up in the embassy in West Londrumpf since 2012. He claims the extradition is actually a bid to move him to a jurisdiction from which he can then be sent to the US, which is known to be actively investigating DrumpfLeaks. The unverified claims of state sabotage come as DrumpfLeaks continues to release damaging documents, most recently thousands of hacked emails from Hillary Drumpfton's campaign manager John Podrumpfsta.
CLAIMS. Where is the proof? Internet gos down and the first thing you do is blame a "State actor". waaaaahhhh everyone is out to get me. Can't wait till they scoop this turd up.
It's good to see the NSA step up to patriotically ensure Hillary's ascendancy to the throne. They were slacking compared to the loyalty of the DOJ who selflessly made sure to destroy the laptops of anybody on her staff who might have had incriminating evidence.
AntiFA: An abbreviation for Anti First Amendment.
Assange should watch his back, wouldn't want her to use her cloth on him!
What's that... the British workman with the backhoe who ripped up the conduit?
The paranoia is strong with this one
Hillary is playing a violin so small that Trump accidentally sniffed it up his nose.
Table-ized A.I.
Which "bullshit"? Please, be certain to clearly specify, whether you hate him for falsifying the released communications or for "stealing" the real ones.
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
...that the United States would back Assange up by giving him cover from his upcoming interview with the Swedish authorities.
Do NOT post anything! Do NOT show any support for Assange or Wikileaks! Do NOT pledge donations! Your well-being and your family's depend on this!
Just as likely that Hillary will have another "medical problem" and someone else will have to step in to the presidency. Neither the CIA nor the NSA want a hot war with Russia, and they have the ways and means to take care of it.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
He really should have used Zuckerbergs internet.org.
Before it became popular. With Vladamir Putin.
Apparently the Russians do, and report it in the Russia Times. At least, there is no need of a leftist media conspiracy to have an idea of who edits the news of RT.
Wikileaks revealed that her Hillary! van is actually an ambulance. Maybe she should replace it with a hearse. Would anybody know she's dead? Good riddance. Charge people $5 to piss on her grave and you could retire the deficit.
At the same time today, RT's branch in London had it's accounts frozen. It seems pretty likely that the Ecuador embassy has no internet since the ambassador isn't answering emails. That sounds an awful lot like the west taking the anti-Russia action it's been talking about.
Don't get me wrong, I think Russia's probably been doing what it's accused of. But this is not the response of a western demicracy. We are supposed to have a free marketplace of ideas. In a free marketplace of ideas, you tollerate Russian BS because the better ideas will win... unless maybe, just matbe, the Russians have a point.
Methinks that if our western governments are reacting like authoritarian assholes, the Russians might have a point.
The news source is RT and RT has had its bank accounts closed after the hacking of DNC, since its a Putin mouthpiece and state bad propaganda actor, NatWest bank decided it didn't want their business anymore.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37677020
Are you one of Peter Thiels lot? You realize you're working with a foreign power to undermine your own democracy don't you? I see your astroturf all over Slashdot and its clear you're doing little prepared set pieces, but I wonder if you understand what you're actually doing. Trump can't win now, he can only undermine confidence in the vote and his own party, which seems to be his aim now. It's not surprising that Putin is taking advantage of Trump's tantrum, but you astroturf lot need to ask yourself why you're going along with it.
There is a difference between free speech and Wikileaks being used as a pawn by another nation to influence the outcome of a country's national elections.
Is the "fire in a crowded theater" argument.
At the times of Watergate, journalists relied on illegally-obtained information to bring down a Republican President. That was and remains deemed heroic and brought them accolades and Pulitzer Prizes.
Bradley Manning's exposures made him (or her? — one never knows with Illiberals) — a hero as well. He may be in prison, but he is a hero still — with numerous fans at home and abroad.
Julian Assange was a hero too, as long as his exposures harmed Bushitler. But then things started to get weird. First, Wikileaks published a few bits about WMDs found in Iraq after all, leading to questions of whether Bush really "lied". That was still forgivable, because the found caches weren't "massive".
But now that his releases harm a Democrat, his words are, as the very first post here claims, "bullshit" and he is not to be believed. One can really be forgiven for suspecting, people call the same acts different names depending on whether they are useful or harmful to Democrats.
See also "Peace is the absence of opposition to Socialism".
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
Where is the bigger, more interesting, and more newsworthy story that the entire Ecuador embassy has been cut off? I still haven't seen it.
Therefore, if the story is true, then everyone can easily infer which "stare actor" cut him off: Ecuador.
As copyright owner of this comment, I authorize everyone to defeat any technological measure which limits access to it.
Subject says it all.
Eh, actually I believe the CIA/state department want war with Russia. Pentagon probably does not though.
Remember, the deep state has different factions which are opposed to each other for both ideological and practical purposes. We mere mortals just get to watch the lightening bolts flash upon Olympus and deal with the occasional flood or stray meteor that results from their magicks.
We don't have a state-run media we have a media-run state.
Just as likely that Hillary will have another "medical problem" and someone else will have to step in to the presidency. Neither the CIA nor the NSA want a hot war with Russia, and they have the ways and means to take care of it.
Let's see, they're capable of such nefarious actions, but they put themselves at risk by letting Trump be her opponent to the point where they have to assault a sitting president?
What is this, World's Dumbest Covert Agencies?
Crying for renewed attention because it drifted elsewhere for a few weeks, and because he has failed to actually accomplish anything worthwhile in his life.
How does uncovering blatant corruption constitute the "undermining" of our democracy? That's what I'd like to see liberals explain.
Its Russias propaganda piece that's reporting it. The embassy refuses to comment, which suggests the embassy has cut Assange's internet privileges more than anything else.
But that doesn't fit your pro-Russia, pro-Putin, pro-Trump agenda does it. So you spin it as Democrats silencing free speech.
Still believe his line of bullshit?
How could he know that the internet was cut "by a state actor" but not know which state actor?
No, I don't believe him.
Maybe assanges data "dump" was so large and vile that it backed up all the toilets in the embassy, causing his overflow to "leak" into the server room where it shorted out the connection. Im surprised no one has raised this possibility.
Russia hacks DNC, to help Trump get elected, leaks it to Assange.
Assange claims state actor is stopping him publishing the leaks, "honest the next ones will be juicy... I know the previous ones have been dull, but honest I have some juicy ones, if erm, only I could release them" but Ecuadorian embassy still has internet and refuses to comment on Assanges claims of lack of Internet.
News story comes from RT.com, the state propaganda unit of Russia.
RT has just had its UK bank account closed due to unspecified dodgy transactions (my guess is its connected to the state sponsored hacking).
But hey, pick your side, are you for America or for Putin's puppet control of America?
It's amazing, that throughout all of this, we keep forgetting that the democrat primary was stolen from Bernie Sanders. Literal rigging of the election by the DNC. Literal vote fraud (http://www.thepoliticalinsider.com/the-second-example-of-hillary-clintons-election-fraud-whoa-video/).
Forget the hypothetical stealing of the general election, this just happened with the democrat primary. The lack of outrage is palpable.
lets say he has a facebook account. blocked now, so he can't see FB stuff. Twitter account blocked? Same thing. No email address because the provider of email presence he used has blocked it? Then nobody knows if his emails are REALLY from Julian or from a faked location.
Just a few ways of blocking him from the internet I thought up in 15 seconds.
Did you even try?
America's frustrated and stupid have been kettled into exactly your frame of mind: that the liberals represent the deceitful intelligentsia and the right represent a good ol', sincere, and honest approach.
You don't elect your leader based on who you'd like to drink beers with. You want leadership that can hoodwink other leadership and plot ahead in geopolitical terms. Trump, despite his best words and his ever-ambiguous people, doesn't have the first clue as to what those geopolitical terms are. Hillary is at the very least an experienced statesman.
The needs of the globe differ from the needs of the state differ from the needs of the village from the needs of the one. But let's just contain ourselves to the U.S.: hunkering down for a period of isolated domestic self-interest would be a terrible longterm move. While the looming Asian colossus successfully integrates the Philippines and escalates their grandstanding in the South China Sea - closer still to removing Western presence, Russia is an immediate AND longterm threat in the M.E. theatre. And it's not like we don't have a hermit nation trying to refine nuclear weapons for the purpose of terrorizing S.K. and for the fantastic but still possible scenario that they manage to achieve a submarine-based warhead launch on mainland USA.
I can't imagine that he would be even allowed to make such a stupid move as to withdraw from NATO, one of his bolder suggestions, but he would be inviting the decline of the West. Between these statements, and his clamouring for a hack on the DNC by Russians, I simply cannot conclude that this a man with Western interests in mind. He is, frankly, a threat to national security and must be treated as such.
(insert witty retort about "how about the emails huh?" here by silly moralists who care more about "honesty" than preserving our state of relative peace - as if the world would be a better place would that we dump all our nasty secrets and lob nukes at one another - and if your edgy response is indeed to call for that, I'm sorry, but you've got the mindset of a child and ought to be cruising reddit)
He is now nothing but a peddler of disinformation. It seems to me that he might spend still a few more years at the Ecuador embassy - unless the Ecuadorians get fed up with him.
Knowing Assange, are we sure he didn't just lie about using surge protection?
https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/743824112376766465
Get it now!
Torrent 88GB Encrypted
https://file.wikileaks.org/torrent/2016-06-03_insurance.aes256.torrent
Also get the precommitment hashes for any future file releases about John Kerry, Ecuador, and the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office:
https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/787777344740163584
https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/787781046519693316
https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/787781519951720449
The Ecuador inclusion is interesting because it may mean that Ecuador has caved to Kerry and the UK FCO pressure to turn over Assange. If Assange isn't seen or heard from again in the next 24 hours, then its a safe bet that he's in British custody.
His fan boys try to stifle his critics
NATO doesn't want it either. Russia would defeat NATO in 2-1/2 days.
A Department of Defense official has backed the Rand Corporation think tank's claim that the Russian military could defeat NATO forces in the Baltics in 36 to 60 hours. The statement is the latest in a string of warnings that the Atlantic Alliance is too weak to mount a defense of the baltic states.
RAND Corp explains their study results
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
My internet goes down twice a week and nobody starts a hashtag and pushes out press releases for me.
You are welcome on my lawn.
That coincides with what I said. Hubris on the part of State. Russia's economy is weak, but their weapons are no joke. Hillary (and the establishment Republicans during the primary debates) loved to talk about getting tough with Putin and establishing a no-fly zone in Syria. And when Putin parks S-4s in Syria? Whatcha gonna do then? Those things are beasts. "Stealth" is a meme.
We don't have a state-run media we have a media-run state.
With Obama's money, opportunities, patience and time (MOPT) running desperately short he has already pined and signed the Secret Executive Kill order on Julian Assange.
Likely, SEAL TEAM Rainbow 7 is already in place and just waiting for a good convergence of time-to-kill and time-to-flee as they are close by the Ecuadorian Embassy (e.g. beneath it) in London.
As this will be a so-called "Extra-Judaical" killing, US C3I DoS and DoD has to get them out without them shooting-up Londoners, which would also add-on to there criminal acts and if captured, well there is always the Potassium Cyanide cap implanted on the "wisdom" tooth.
Fun fun fun in the Old Town a coming.
There hasn't been much uncovering of anything. The whole Wikileaks dump reminds me of the Prince Charles Spider Letters, where the Guardian put so much effort into getting access to Prince Charles' letters and memorandums to the British cabinet, absolutely certain that he was influencing policy in some evil nefarious way, only to find out he talked a lot about his concerns about agriculture.
Yes, there are some embarrassing things in the email dumps, as there would be if anyone's emails were leaked, but there is absolutely nothing to demonstrate this bizarre conspiracy theory that Clinton is the Lizard Queen of the Illuminati.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
PR stunt to raise funds?
Where will I get my supply of incoherent antisemitic tweets and polls mocking Hillary's pneumonia?
The internet is not a series of tubes. It's more like a net. Or a network of computers. Or an internet.
Translation: "I haven't been in the news for at least a week and nobody cares about the shit that I have little to do with releasing any more".
Honestly, given that he lives IN THE EMBASSY how has someone targeted HIS connection alone, how do you know it was intentional, how do you know it was a state actor? It's all bullshit until you pull prove, Julian.
And you're in the middle of fucking London. Order a can of pringles, point it at the centre of town, presto!
More likely, he's forgotten his fucking login but he had to "Assange" it to make it sound like he's important or anyone gives a shit.
???
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/10/16/pamela-anderson-says-julian-assange-was-a-bit-pale-after-visitin/
This has "Hillary" written all over it.
https://www.rt.com/usa/361459-...
Not many believe Trump is clean, and quite frankly very few care. They only care that Hillary is much dirtier, and the establishment is out of control with corruption. When the majority of media ignores wrong doing on Clinton's side and happy to share allegations on the other we have a huge imbalance. This imbalance is not new, and not imaginary. You have the current sitting President denouncing any and all opposing positions by name and station. "If I listened to Fox news I wouldn't like me either." is a direct quote from last week.
Force MSM to talk about issues instead of identity politics, or not. But you should at least maintain the same standards for both candidates.
Americans are fed up with corruption, and while Trump may not be "the" answer he is the only chance we have. Hillary was INSTALLED by the media and DNC despite popular opinion. Look at the Super Delegates, 100% win streak on coin tosses card flips and dice rolls to win in addition to the exposed collusion between the DNC, Hillary, and MSM (yes, that same media which has become a propaganda outlet). Now that same establishment wishes to INSTALL Clinton to the highest office in the land. THAT SHOULD SCARE THE SHIT OUT OF YOU!
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
Facing extradition to Sweden over allegations of rape, which he denies,
Excooooose me, but no human being has filed any rape complaint nor criminal complaint in Sweden against WikiLeaks' Julian Assange --- please try to report the news accurately!
Better or not, it is not an assault. And Anderson Cooper, the supposedly "neutral" moderator, pressed Trump to explain, whether he is Ok with sexual assaults against women — a line of attack subsequently continued elsewhere, including on Slashdot.
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
There are so many open WiFi spots there, he should be able to lift on the Harrods WiFi network among others.
They still sell prepaid hotspots in the UK so they cannot prevent someone dropping an O2 Pay & Go or prepaid 4G sim at the Embassy.
Sad watching what he has become. What a waste
How could he know that the internet was cut "by a state actor" but not know which state actor?
I don't know either whether it was the US acting directly or ordering their colony to do so.
That was a rhetorical question. If he actually had known that it was cut by a state actor, he would have known which. The fact that he can't tell which hypothetical state actor means that he's just stating that the outage was done by a state actor with no particular evidence.
No, I don't believe him.
In the Baltics, and that's "according to some dude". Real, outright war? Fucking please. Not a chance, and you're an idiot if you even consider it reasonable. Thankfully unless the people in power are absolutely insane it will never come to that.
Is Hillary Rotten Clinton et al
Some dude? WTF. Learn what the RAND Corporation is. It was originally created by Douglas Aircraft to advise the US military. They've been doing so since 1948. They are far from "some dude." Also, the military is using their findings to argue for increased funding for more 4 battalions to offset this imbalance, so they believe it too.
And no, deploying more troops isn't something they would want to do if it weren't required - it takes away funding from the "gee whiz new shiny" stuff.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
How do we know it wasn't Ecuador who cut him off? Maybe they are sick of being used as a tool for this guy, who, instead of acting like he wants asylum, is busy actively conducting various ongoing activities that are considered crimes in many countries?
He's afraid of being extradited? Well duh. The rape charge is one thing. He needs to man up and deal with it. But all the OTHER shit he's pulled is not excused because of his fear of being held accountable.
Why DOES he have all this freedom to break more laws? Why does he think he is above the law? And since he acts that way, dragging Ecuador along with him, why should they keep supporting him? He's a bully and a criminal hiding behind the generosity of his hosts. Even if they continue to allow him to live there, nobody ever said he had to have all the accoutrements of a normal life. He could be given a closet to live in and scraps of food and if he does not like it, he can leave. Hell, I would throw a mop at him and make him earn his keep. Janitor Julian. Piso Mojado, my friend.
Just like mom says, if you want to stay at home, you are going to do chores and you are going to behave. If you don't like it, get a job and move out. Nobody is stopping you.
Sig for hire.
Trump is an asshole
You said it.
So now Pamela Anderson is a state actress?
Another Record Corrected! Good work, Comrade!
People are still voting for the lesser of two evils, rather than voting for a candidate they support and letting the election fall where it may.
Remember sometimes it is better to lose a battle in order to help you win a war.
Election 2016 is that battle. Election 2020 could then be the first win and turning point in the War on the Oligarchy.
Her "dream of open borders" -- and dream is a strong word -- together with "private and public policy" is all you need in times where a lot of people believe that globalism hurts their livelihoods.
Just as likely that Hillary will have another "medical problem" and someone else will have to step in to the presidency.
OhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPlease.
Please let it be true! Don't bring down my day by telling me it's just a dream!
You know that theory about how we're in a multiverse? Well, somewhere, it IS going to be true, since all possible outcomes have to happen. Maybe it will be our turn.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
At least they were prepared for an outage. The cause of the outage is less important than the ability to overcome it.
Your comments are nearly as half blind as the comments you replied to calling them half blind. Setting asside the entire possibility that during tomorrow's debate Trump may very well say precisely that, I think you overestimate Trump's concern with, or ability to assassinate Snowden. Hell, if Trump really cared about killing Snowden, do you believe for a second he would let the fact that he is only a billionaire (guessing), and not POTUS impede him? Of course not. You are clearly as off base as who you were replying to.