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Ecuador Acknowledges Limiting Julian Assange's Web Access (reuters.com)
Alexandra Valencia, reporting for Reuters: Ecuador's government acknowledged on Tuesday it had partly restricted internet access for Julian Assange, the founder of anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks who has lived in the South American country's London embassy since mid-2012. WikiLeaks said Assange lost connectivity on Sunday, sparking speculation Ecuador might have been pressured by the United States due to the group's publication of hacked material linked to U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. In a statement, Ecuador's leftist government said WikiLeaks' decision to publish documents impacting the U.S. election campaign was entirely its own responsibility, and the South American country did not cede to pressure from other nations. "In that respect, Ecuador, exercising its sovereign right, has temporarily restricted access to part of its communications systems in its UK Embassy," it added in a statement. "The Ecuador government respects the principle of non-intervention in other countries' affairs, it does not meddle in election processes underway, nor does it support any candidate specially."
He isn't in Ecuador, he's in a flat in London - whether the Ecuadorian Embassy allow him an alternative method of access is debatable at this point, they don't have to allow him the use of a mobile phone or his own line (the issue seems to be with with his actions, not with the fact that they are being done over an Ecuadorian-linked internet connection) and they can ask him to leave if he has an issue with that.
Telling people what Hillary is actually doing is bad manners.
Bob Beckel did work for Fox for awhile, but he is by no means a conservative republican.
preventing the distribution of information relevant to the candidates, Ecuador effectively allows the influence to be heavily one sided.
Do you even buy the crap your shovelling? A nation state is using assange as its toy to disrupt an election. It's completely one sided. I don't think one thing has been hacked on the republican side. Even the tax returns may have just been someone having a copy, and even then it was only a fraction of what Clinton released.
Donald Trump got crap loads of free press to get this far, and now he is acting like a whining 3 year old and saying its all rigged. It's not. He is getting continuous crap loads of opposition hacking for free, and oh yah, still whining that the election is rigged and the media is out to get him...
The election is not rigged against the Donald. If anything it has been rigged for him. He is just such a crap candidate that he can't even win with all the rigging. Instead he is trying he is telling a crap load of lies about some conspiracy against him, which is very likely to result in violence and perhaps deaths, and at the very least is destabilizing the worlds faith in our democracy, just because he can't accept he is a looser. No, the Donald cannot be wrong. The World cannot be smart enough to not want him. It is the world that must be wrong. What nonsense.
So yes, the election is rigged, and yes their is a conspiracy. It is rigged for trump, and the conspiracy is trump's. Not satisfied with his birthir lies to discredit the nations first black president, he is going to try his damnest to discredit the nation's first woman president, and he doesn't give a fark about how it screws over the country.
Perhaps, at this point the rumor that he is just doing it all to make the next fox news seems as likely as anything. I suppose having a channel that worships his brand of snake oil would appeal to his overinflated sense of ego.
Don't fall for that very crudely made smearing attempt of Assange. It is incredible that they are trying to smear with this as it doesn't stand up under close scrutiny. Check for yourself about some of the details and how this is connected to Hillary Clinton:
GUYS. THE SHILLS ARE UP TO SOMETHING WITH ASSANGE! NOT A DRILL. PLEASE LOOK! FRAMING IN PROGRESS!
https://www.reddit.com/r/The_D...
Background and Documents on Attempts to Frame Assange as a Pedophile and Russian spy
https://www.wikileaks.org/Back...
WikiLeaks on Twitter: "Internet sleuths connect Clinton to mysterious intelligence contractor associated with Assange false accusations
https://twitter.com/wikileaks/...
WikiLeaks on Twitter: "Internet sleuths connect Clinton to mysterious intelligence contractor associated with Assange false accusations 2
https://twitter.com/wikileaks/...
You seem unaware that there is now a reasonably strong chain that links Clintons campaign to these faked paedophile allegations (see reddit wikileaks) and an attempt to entrap Assange with a million dollar bribe through a couple of shell companies connecting back to her camp. It appears it was a possibly criminal Democratic conspiracy/fraud/libel', that got quickly sprung
Here's a helpful infographic to connect the dots..
https://i.imgur.com/s27EVHS.jpg
http://www.inquisitr.com/3609216/julian-assange-reportedly-being-investigated-for-alleged-online-sexual-molestation-of-8-year-old-girl/
Assange is a twat, but his antipathy towards Clinton is perhaps understandable when there are reports that Clinton discussed assassinating him back in 2010 (and didn't leave the impression she was joking)
Both candidates are appalling. Trump is an ill-disciplined narcissistic dickhead (though has at least proposed some positive reform - like term limits). But Clinton appears to be a nasty sociopath, and has so much unethical immoral history (going back decades), and what seems like total disregard for the rule of law - from seeming threats to Bills victims' to whitewater, to server shennanigans, to (in last 2 days) filmed admissions from her team about paying people to incite violence at Trump rallies and rig voting. Not really surprising in someone who has been in the game so long and has put up with marriage to Bill to give her the shot at the big chair, but it simply can't be tolerated in a President - even if she might otherwise be a relatively safe pair of hands. Option 3 please.
from parent post:
from one of Hillary Clinton's paid Wall Street speeches:
Not only does Hillary Clinton advocate in private paid meetings to Wall Street bankers policies opposed her own public positions, she confesses in one of those meetings that she does. The contradictions between her public statements and private statements made to Wall Street bankers are why she suppressed the release of transcripts or recordings of those paid speeches during the primary and why their release by Wikileaks has been politically damaging to her.
Ceci n'est pas une signature.
Embassies on foreign soil are considered sovereign territories according to the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. Assange may be physically located on UK soil, but as long as Ecuador grants him asylum he is effectively in the domain of Ecuador while inside the Embassy and no arresting party can enter the compound without Ecuador's permission. Once Assange steps outside the embassy property then he is subject to UK authority and can be apprehended.
In the event of hostilities or soured diplomatic relations, it's a different story.
Eternity: will that be smoking, or non-smoking? I Corinthians 6:9-10
"Not only does Hillary Clinton advocate in private paid meetings to Wall Street bankers policies opposed her own public positions, she confesses in one of those meetings that she does."
Wanted: citation and full context please - the context of this speech excerpts is still not enough! Most of what you're complaining about is actually contained in the heading text of each paragraph added by the media that colours your perception of what she says later in the paragraph/speech.
The fact that there's a difference between the specifics of negotiation and what's being marketed is something that's inherent to politics itself - which is why she was talking about Lincoln etc., to demonstrate that. If you wish to deny the basic nature and existence of politics itself, I suggest you go live in a bunker someone, alone.
That's a link to Wikileaks's front page, not a link to a "compliant and uneducated voters" statement.
Googling for the phrase "compliant and uneducated voters" only comes up with this comment, presumably also by you.
As for your "there would be riots in the street", your people are talking about rioting in the streets. Not just riots, but outright coups if Hillary is elected. On camera. And your candidate is deliberately whipping them up to this with all of his repeated "shadowy conspiracy stealing the election with massive fraud" talk.
"99 dead duelists of Dios on the wall. 99 dead duelists of Dios! Take one's ring, pass it around..."
She will sleep comfortably while you are begging for help to save your life
You're likely just echoing conservative dogma about "Benghazigate". Do you get you get your news from any sources other that Fox? Not to diminish the tragedy, but the Obama administration's errors here (in actuality, lower level security personnel in the State Dept. rather than Clinton directly though she accepted responsibility as Sec.) was in its flawed strategic decisions regarding the size of the ambassadorial mission there and what actions to take in light of the decreasing stability. To portray Clinton as slumbering comfortably while her charges were begging for help is patently false. Further, conservative efforts to discredit Clinton through endless Benghazi hearings are disingenuous, unceasing and utterly wasteful, but shows them as the true exploiters of the tragedy. Ronald Reagan's Benghazi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Beirut_barracks_bombings was not politicized at all and it happened six months after the embassy there was bombed.
If there is a rule or a law, she will break it without a moments hesitation if she perceives the benefit in added power, money or prestige outweighs the risks.
Opinion stated as fact. Please support with evidence... BTW, factually speaking, Trump has boasted of sexual assault and is busy right now planting the seeds of insurrection by absurdly claiming the election is"rigged"- sounds like treason (the crime of betraying one's country, especially by attempting to kill the sovereign or overthrow the government) to me. Tell me who's lawless again.
ask yourself what would it be like if she had the powers of Presidential Pardon and Executive Privilege?
Sorry, too busy pondering what would happen if Trump were CIC. Didn't he say he would carpet bomb ISIS and steal the oil? He knows more about ISIS than "tha generals". K then, Like I said,: too busy pondering Armageddon under Trump....
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