Wikileaks Assange internet cut, Kerry in UK

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When Hillary brings up fact checkers, Trump should say 'Wikileaks is my favorite fact checker'
0 comments submitted 49 minutes ago by Falafalfeelings to /r/The_Donald
Then drop his mic

 

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The U.S. government's cyber-war on Wikileaks
Srećko Horvat
CounterPunch
Tue, 18 Oct 2016 19:35 UTC


© Sunshine Press Publications
Srećko Horvat & Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London.
When the ruling class is in panic, their first reaction is to hide the panic.

They react out of cynicism: when their masks are revealed, instead of running around naked, they usually point the finger at the mask they wear. These days the whole world could witness a postmodern version of the infamous quote "Let them eat cake", attributed to Marie-Antoinette, queen of France during the French Revolution.

As a reaction to WikiLeaks publishing his emails, John Podesta, the man behind Hillary Clinton's campaign, posted a photo of a dinner preparation, saying "I bet the lobster risotto is better than the food at the Ecuadorian Embassy".

A similar version of vulgar cynicism emerged earlier this month when Hillary Clinton reacted to the claim that she reportedly wanted to "drone" WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange ("Can't we just drone this guy?") when she was the US Secretary of State. Instead of denying her comments, Clinton said that she doesn't recall any such joke, "It would have been a joke if it had been said, but I don't recall that".

One doesn't have to read between the lines to understand that if Hillary Clinton had said that, she would have considered it a joke. But when emperors joke, it usually has dire consequences for those who are the objects of their "humor."

Cyber-war Not with Russia...but WikiLeaks

During the last few months I have visited Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London several times and each time I came out of the Embassy, where he is spending his fifth year in political asylum under legitimate fear he might be extradited to the US, my thought was the following one: although he lives, without his family, in a postmodern version of solitary confinement (even prisoners are allowed to walk for up to one hour a day), although he has no access to fresh air or sunlight for more than 2000 days, although the UK government recently denied him safe passage to a hospital for an MRI scan, if his access to the internet would be cut off this would be the most severe attack on his physical and mental freedom.

The last time I saw him, which was only two weeks ago, he expressed the fear that, because he had already published leaks concerning US elections and with more to come, the US might find various ways to silence him, including pressuring Ecuador or even shutting down the internet.

What seemed a distant possibility only two weeks ago, soon became a self-fulfilling prophecy.

When the Obama administration recently announced that it is, as Biden said, planing an "unprecedented cyber covert action against Russia", the first victim was not Putin, but precisely Julian Assange whose internet was cut off just a day after Biden's self-contradictory proclamation.

No wonder Edward Snowden reacted immediately by saying that "nobody told Joe Biden what 'covert operation' means.

According to the U.S. Department of Defense's Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms, a covert operation is "an operation that is so planned and executed as to conceal the identity of or permit plausible denial by the sponsor."

It is no secret anymore that the Ecuadorian government has come under extreme pressure since Assange leaked the Democratic National Committee email database. We don't know yet whether the US pressured Ecuador to shut down the internet, but it is clear that the present US government and the government to come is fighting a war with WikiLeaks which is all but "covert". Is it really a coincidence that Julian Assange's internet access was cut off shortly after publication of Clinton's Goldman Sachs speeches?

If at the beginning we still had a "soft" version of postmodern McCarthyism, with Hillary calling everyone opposed to her campaign a Russian spy (not only Assange, but also Donald Trump and Jill Stein), then with Obama's recent intervention it became more serious.

With Obama's threat of a cyber-war, the "soft" McCarthyism didn't only acquire geopolitical significance, but at the same time a new mask was revealed: Obama is obviously trying to cement the public debate and make the Russian threat "real", or at least to use it as a weapon in order to help Clinton to get elected. Moreover, this new twist in something that has already become much more than only US elections (US elections are never only US elections!), shows not only how Obama is ready to strengthen Hillary's campaign, but it also reveals that a cyber war is already in the making.

It is not a cyber war with Russia, but with WikiLeaks.

And it is not the first time.

 

[B. Kidd]

Welcome to Sott.net
Wed, 19 Oct 2016
The World for People who Think


Puppet Masters

The U.S. government's cyber-war on Wikileaks
Srećko Horvat
CounterPunch
Tue, 18 Oct 2016 19:35 UTC


© Sunshine Press Publications
Srećko Horvat & Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London.
When the ruling class is in panic, their first reaction is to hide the panic.

They react out of cynicism: when their masks are revealed, instead of running around naked, they usually point the finger at the mask they wear. These days the whole world could witness a postmodern version of the infamous quote "Let them eat cake", attributed to Marie-Antoinette, queen of France during the French Revolution.

As a reaction to WikiLeaks publishing his emails, John Podesta, the man behind Hillary Clinton's campaign, posted a photo of a dinner preparation, saying "I bet the lobster risotto is better than the food at the Ecuadorian Embassy".

A similar version of vulgar cynicism emerged earlier this month when Hillary Clinton reacted to the claim that she reportedly wanted to "drone" WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange ("Can't we just drone this guy?") when she was the US Secretary of State. Instead of denying her comments, Clinton said that she doesn't recall any such joke, "It would have been a joke if it had been said, but I don't recall that".

One doesn't have to read between the lines to understand that if Hillary Clinton had said that, she would have considered it a joke. But when emperors joke, it usually has dire consequences for those who are the objects of their "humor."

Cyber-war Not with Russia...but WikiLeaks

During the last few months I have visited Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London several times and each time I came out of the Embassy, where he is spending his fifth year in political asylum under legitimate fear he might be extradited to the US, my thought was the following one: although he lives, without his family, in a postmodern version of solitary confinement (even prisoners are allowed to walk for up to one hour a day), although he has no access to fresh air or sunlight for more than 2000 days, although the UK government recently denied him safe passage to a hospital for an MRI scan, if his access to the internet would be cut off this would be the most severe attack on his physical and mental freedom.

The last time I saw him, which was only two weeks ago, he expressed the fear that, because he had already published leaks concerning US elections and with more to come, the US might find various ways to silence him, including pressuring Ecuador or even shutting down the internet.

What seemed a distant possibility only two weeks ago, soon became a self-fulfilling prophecy.

When the Obama administration recently announced that it is, as Biden said, planing an "unprecedented cyber covert action against Russia", the first victim was not Putin, but precisely Julian Assange whose internet was cut off just a day after Biden's self-contradictory proclamation.

No wonder Edward Snowden reacted immediately by saying that "nobody told Joe Biden what 'covert operation' means.

According to the U.S. Department of Defense's Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms, a covert operation is "an operation that is so planned and executed as to conceal the identity of or permit plausible denial by the sponsor."

It is no secret anymore that the Ecuadorian government has come under extreme pressure since Assange leaked the Democratic National Committee email database. We don't know yet whether the US pressured Ecuador to shut down the internet, but it is clear that the present US government and the government to come is fighting a war with WikiLeaks which is all but "covert". Is it really a coincidence that Julian Assange's internet access was cut off shortly after publication of Clinton's Goldman Sachs speeches?

If at the beginning we still had a "soft" version of postmodern McCarthyism, with Hillary calling everyone opposed to her campaign a Russian spy (not only Assange, but also Donald Trump and Jill Stein), then with Obama's recent intervention it became more serious.

With Obama's threat of a cyber-war, the "soft" McCarthyism didn't only acquire geopolitical significance, but at the same time a new mask was revealed: Obama is obviously trying to cement the public debate and make the Russian threat "real", or at least to use it as a weapon in order to help Clinton to get elected. Moreover, this new twist in something that has already become much more than only US elections (US elections are never only US elections!), shows not only how Obama is ready to strengthen Hillary's campaign, but it also reveals that a cyber war is already in the making.

It is not a cyber war with Russia, but with WikiLeaks.

And it is not the first time.

Yupp! The Hill-Beast warmonger did, indeedee wanna drone Assange.

 

[AZGAL]

Now some people want to provide wifi hot spots outside the embassy.

 

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Assange Missing, Presumed Dead As WikiLeaks Open Huge Archive
Posted on October 18, 2016 by Baxter Dmitry in News, US // 20 Comments.......................................................................................................................................................................................................Could it be that when Queen Hillary was yelling shrilleriously about ESPIONAGE, she was hinting at the reason why Julian Assange and all his associates are missing?
Espionage
Espionage, commonly known as spying, is the practice of secretly gathering information about aforeign government or a competing industry, with the purpose of placing one's own governmentor corporation at some strategic or financial advantage. Federal law prohibits espionage when itjeopardizes the national defense or benefits a foreign nation (18 U.S.C.A. § 793). Criminalespionage involves betraying U.S. government secrets to other nations.

 

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What Happened
At around 6 AM GMT the official Wikileaks twitter account tweeted this saying that a State Actor had severed Assange’s connection to the internet. Prior to this they released 3 strings, presumably to prove that they still had a deadman’s switch in the form of encrypted files. Links to the file and instructions on how to open them can be foundhere.[Screenshot]

After this, a periscoper showed a blue G4S security van park opposite the embassy. A redditor who tried to call the Embassy was told that they could not comment on Assange. This image surfaced soon after the initial tweet but remains unconfirmed.

There are numerous unconfirmed tweets floating about that Assange has been killed/ is alive. Neither of these has been confirmed and all sources stating this should be ignored.

The most worrying of all this is the fact that the next Podesta e-mail leak hasn’t occured as scheduled.

At the same time, the bank accounts of Russia Today was frozen in the UK, however there is no evidence of this being related.

 

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WikiLeaks has not said how it obtained the hacked emails, and it has battled the suggestion that it is being used by Russia. WikiLeaks occasionally employs the hashtag #nottherussians.

In a tweet Thursday, WikiLeaks issued a statement under the heading “Is WikiLeaks an ‘agent’ of any government such as Russia? No.”

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“WikiLeaks publishes suppressed documents of diplomatic, ethical, historical or moral significance that reveal illegal or immoral behavior,” the statement said. “No government or private enterprise is immune.”

It went on to say that the group is not “anti-Western” or “anti-U.S.”


Read more here: WikiLeaks emails part curtain on a nearly elected Obama considering White House staff

 

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WikiLeaksVerified account‏@wikileaks
There is no US election. There is power consolidation. Rigged primary, rigged media and rigged 'pied piper' candidate drive consolidaiton.

 

[AZGAL]

updates please

 

[EverCurious]

Yesterday Anonymous put out a call to war against the mainstream media. Given their affection for Wikileaks, and the codes and dump that happened, I fear the worst...

 

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Anonymous ID:m60625Mh Fri 21 Oct 2016 0926 No.93981339 Report
Quoted By: >>93983441
They want to, but they also know that it's useless since Assange doesn't have the emails himself it's all with various individuals all over the world and also in secret databases/clouds. Basically taking Assange out won't stop anything and might even make the situation worse for the elites. This is why they're so hesitant to do it. (they'll probably still do it though because they're cowards)

 

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London City Airport evacuated in 'chemical' scare
BBC News-1 hour ago




Emergency Services remain at London CIty Airport

"We are now all standing on the tarmac under the wing of the airplane because it has started to rain.

"I can see some plane circling in the sky but nothing else has landed. No-one has really told us anything. We saw some fire crew going inside to do a sweep.

"I saw something on Twitter about it being a possible chemical incident. I'm not particularly worried because we are outside now."

 

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Snowden talked with CyberScout employees and customers via Skype at the Scottsdale company’s fourth annual Privacy Xchange Forum Monday afternoon at the Boulders Resort in Carefree.

He said he would not have done anything differently and would release the same documents “without hesitation” if he had the chance again. While he initially struggled with his decision, he said he did it for various constitutional reasons.

“The government was no longer monitoring someone with nefarious intellect, rather they were embracing the new convenience to monitor everyone everywhere,” Snowden said. “What I set out to do was enable these legal challenges. I wanted to give society a chance to decide how constitutional this was.”

With the U.S. government pursuing Snowden’s extradition, he is living in Russia after being granted a three-year residency in August 2014. He received the new residency after his year of temporary asylum ended.

 

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Mr. Assange has been the subject of severe restrictions on his liberty (in prison, under house arrest, and in the embassy) since 7 December 2010. His passport was seized the same day.

More than five years ago, in February 2010, the US commenced its ongoing ’espionage’ investigation into Mr. Assange and WikiLeaks . The case has been described in diplomatic cables as “unprecedented in scale and nature” and is widely regarded to be the largest ever investigation of a publisher in US history. The FBI file alone is known to run to more than 42,135 pages. (See: EPIC - EPIC v. DOJ - FBI: Wikileaks)

Warrants issued to Google, which were revealed late last year, show that the US is seeking to prosecute Mr. Assange under the following criminal laws for his work as editor of WikiLeaks:

• Espionage: 18 U.S.C. § 793(d)
• Conspiracy to commit espionage: 18 U.S.C. § 793(g)
• The theft or conversion of property belonging to the United States government: 18 U.S.C. § 641
• Violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act: 18 U.S.C. § 1030
• Conspiracy: 18 U.S.C. § 371

 

[skookerasbil]

Ecuador Cuts Assange's Internet

Why not his throat?

Sucks to be you these days s0n huh?

Got miserable>>?

Ooops........forgot.....you're always miserable s0n!!

 

[skookerasbil]

Never thought Id see it but appears the DUMS stealing the election(s) is fast becoming big news.

Cant ever remember a time on this message board when I was seeing so many miserable progressives heads exploding. They are perpetually miserable but its getting to the level of profound angst.........like the Trojan horse is being split wide open and the bozo's inside having their heads horribly smashed.

 

[AZGAL]

WikiLeaks ‏@wikileaks 1h1 hour ago


Mr. Assange is still alive and WikiLeaks is still publishing. We ask supporters to stop taking down the US internet. You proved your point.

 

[EverCurious]

Hmm and a call out to Anonymous there? I wonder if they'll heed their buddies call or if they'll demand proof.

 

[AZGAL]

I think he is imprisoned.