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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?
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!
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.
Hey, if the US can blame the Russians ...
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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.
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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.
It is rather odd that a sovereign embassy gets it's Internet cut by the host state and nobody bothers repairing it. If it was just an outage, it would've been fixed before it got on Slashdot but so far and I would guess that embassies have more than one method of linking to the Internet.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I am going to laugh my a$$ off if this ends up becoming another Dewey vs Truman statement. As most polls still are within the margin off error, this could be a possibility
Trump can't win now
If you repeat a lie often enough, or something along those lines...right?
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.
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
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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.
Mike Pence is blaming the Russians now too. And he may be in a better position to know, since Roger Stone (Trump campaign bigwig) has copped to coordinating with Wikileaks.
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/...
I have this funny feeling that Assange may be wearing out his welcome. I doubt very much Ecuador wants to be used as a conduit for Russia to try to undermine the US elections.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
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.
Have you any confirmation at all that the Embassy's Internet has indeed been cut? Others here are reporting that Assange doesn't use their Internet.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
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.
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.
Russia undermining the US election? Come off it. Trump is doing his share, and the DNC already did their share. The majority of the population doesn't trust either candidate. That's not Russia's fault.
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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.
And how is this distraction supposed to be more important than the actual contents of the leaked documents, that show Clinton is a two-faced liar? If the Russians leaked them, they did a public service. Same as if they were to leak Trump's tax returns. Shoot-the-messenger because you don't like the message?
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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.
I am going to laugh my a$$ off if this ends up becoming another Dewey vs Truman statement
According to 538 (who unlike you and me and most of the press are experts at analyzing polling), you have roughly a 15% chance (as of this writing) of getting that laugh. Not where I'd place a bet, but likely enough that you should probably lay in for some spare a$$es just in case.
When people talk about the Russians, they are complaining about the thief, not the messenger.
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.
They can be one and the same, you know. It's not like they're mutually exclusive. Besides, the US does it all the time to governments around the world, actively interfering in elections. So stop your hypocritical whining. It's embarrassing.
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Exclusivity is so beside the point that I'm not sure why you mentioned it. I would not be better disposed to a thief who claimed: "but after this I'll be a messenger!"
I concede that the Russians have long complained that we encourage western-style democracy in their former satellites, and there is nothing hypocritical about it. Nor for that matter is it hypocritical for Putin to attempt to install (by hook and crook) a poor man's Putin as President of the United States. But neither the thief nor the messenger is actually interested in advancing democracy, so the people calling them out on their agenda re neither hypocritical nor whining.
Oh look, some fuckwit conflating wikileaks with Russia.
Wikileaks may or may not be receiving leaked/hacked documents from Russia but someone talking to some cunt at Wikileaks has fuck all to do with Russia.
The problem is that the theatre does appear to be on fire.
So now Pamela Anderson is a state actress?
The United States has a long history of overthrowing democratically elected governments, always over economic interests of American business. Just look at Iran. Or Venezuela. Or look at the list of 57 countries the US has either overthrown or tried to overthrow since WW2. Or the countries which the US meddled in from which we get the term banana republic.
And then there's assassinations and attempted assassinations. Cuba and the Bay of Pigs, anyone? Or Obama's creation of an extra-judicial and illegal hit list.
So no, you're totally, totally full of shit when you say that the US encourages western democracy. "Only when it suits US business." We wouldn't be seeing the problems in the middle east if the democratically elected government hadn't been overthrown. Iran would be secular (as it was before the overthrow), and an anchor of stability. But no, oil oil oil.
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Sooo... maybe he uses Comcast?
-- Sometimes you have to turn the lights off in order to see.
The U.S certainly throws is weight around, and threw it more freely when Putin's former employer was still kicking. But Russia's current distemper has a lot less to do with the Bay of Pigs than Ukraine and Syria (and Estonia and Poland And Latvia and . . . )
And Cuba is next! Good times.
Either way, it's a physical data link going into an embassy. There is no saying who or what exactly uses it within the embassy.
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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!
Why? the embassy is in the UK. Most of us are lucky here if we can get our connection fixed within 3 months, 24 hours is not a typical response time for BT - even if you have an SLA with them on a commercial line you'll be lucky if they actually bother to fulfil it half the time.
If Cuba is next, it's because of decades of US stupidity in the face of almost universal criticism of the blockade - the only other nation to support the blockade at the UN was Israel (and the US and Israel are always pulling each other's strings).
Now would be the ideal time for Russia to invade the Baltic nations - they would be in control of the capitals within 1-1/2 to 2-1/2 days, and there's nothing much that NATO can do about it. And that's assuming the tanks only move at the glacial pace of 5 mph (see link elsewhere to RAND Corp study). Of course, the ideal time to do it isn't yet - the day before the next president takes the oath of office, or that day, would be much more effective.
And since the US has openly said they're going to break into Russian computer systems (like the US hasn't been doing so all over the world - ha!), Putin could say that the original order was generated by hacked communications systems, but that once it started, the best option for the Russian people was to see it through to the end.
Same as if the US accidentally launched a nuke directed towards Moscow - many in the US would feel that, given the high likelihood of a massive retaliation, better to follow through with everything you've got rather than go "oops - sorry, won't happen again."
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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.
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At least they were prepared for an outage. The cause of the outage is less important than the ability to overcome it.