Major Developments in the Julian Assange Extradition Attempt by UK! Our Interview with Occupy News Network, Raid Recap, Asylum Announcement, World Reaction, UK Reaction, and how does this connect to TRAPWIRE?
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Julian Assange Asylum Developments and the Ecuador Embassy Stand-Off
Major, major developments in the Julian Assange extradition attempt by the United Kingdom. Last night we had an amazing second hour. We ended up getting an exclusive interview with one of the only guys streaming live, with about fifteen or twenty people gathered outside the Ecuadorean embassy when things started getting crazy. Police cars started showing up, police everywhere, all of a sudden, in anticipation of this announcement about Assange’s asylum request to avoid extradition.
We were fortunate to have Pedro Molina of Occupy News Network. Shout out to Occupy News Network, ONN.tv. Absolutely fantastic coverage they provided last night when nobody else was out there. Total media blackout. That’s typical, we see this all the time though. It was like two weeks before the mainstream media picked up on that story. Really interesting how it played out. Last night it was all the alternative news. We were the first to break it. Revealing Talk Radio went live around midnight UK time when the police showed up, and at five AM in the UK they were there with us. The fans were loving it and they were getting real-time information right from the street across from the Ecuadorean embassy, as people and cameras started to flood in as the sun came up.
Everyone was in anticipation of the word, but it ended up being an announcement about asylum rather than a grey area. Ecuador delivered a very powerful, well-thought-out statement. We know now why they took so long. They let this build up, and they said they wanted to wait until after the Olympics, but it’s clear they did a lot of homework so they could have a very well-thought-out statement that is really hard for anyone to argue with.
Ecuador’s Reasons for Granting Asylum
The statement was so powerful. They gave fifteen or sixteen individual reasons why Assange qualified for asylum status. The biggest ones were that there were no guarantees from Sweden. They asked multiple times for Sweden to guarantee they would not hand him over to the USA for unfounded charges. There was an opportunity given for a representative of Sweden to come interview him about the charges. They’ve done this before for murderers. They will send somebody to interview a murder suspect in another country, but they wouldn’t do it for Julian Assange. In reality, there are no actual charges filed. The case has been botched multiple times, dropped multiple times.
On top of that, Ecuador could see no proof that these allegations are any more than that, and there is absolute proof that he would receive torture and mistreatment if the USA were to get a hold of him. With no guarantees from Sweden, no willingness to interview, and suspicious allegations, then there is the treatment of Bradley Manning. Solitary confinement for eight hundred days, twenty-three hours a day locked in a cell, still on suicide watch, which means you’re naked most of the time. It is about breaking down his mental capacity. This is a person that will eventually become so broken he will say whatever they want him to say just to get the treatment to stop.
Ecuador stated that Julian Assange is an award-winning communications professional, internationally known for his struggles for freedom of expression, press freedom, and human rights. There is strong evidence of retaliation by the country or countries that produced the information disclosed by Assange. Diplomatic efforts by countries asked to provide adequate safeguards for his protection and safety were refused. Legal evidence clearly shows that given the actions of the United States, it would be unlikely for Assange to receive a fair trial, and he would likely be judged by special or military courts where there is a high probability of suffering cruel and degrading treatment, or even capital punishment. Australia, his home country, has unfortunately abandoned him.
Ecuador’s constitution clearly defines the right to asylum and recognizes the rights of asylum seekers and refugee status. They basically said they absolutely accept Julian Assange and gave the middle finger to the United States of America.
Possible Outcomes of the Embassy Stand-Off
There is an international chess game playing out at the highest level. The first possible outcome is that maybe Assange is not even in the building. Maybe he snuck out to Ecuador ahead of time. That would be a ploy to drag out the announcement. Wouldn’t that be interesting.
The second possibility is that he is in the building and gets pulled out physically. That would put embassies at risk everywhere. Every other embassy, especially in South America, would be threatened. The UK would lose international credibility overnight and international courts could very likely get involved. There is a legal clause the UK claims they can use which has to do with the right of the landholder to revoke diplomatic consent. If you technically revoke consent for the embassy, the diplomatic status becomes null and void, and they gain the ability to legally come onto the premises and take him.
The third option is a wildcard. There are other creative ways they could get Assange outside the building without the direct use of force. Use your imagination.
The fourth, and what I think is the most likely and most interesting, is that he is in the building waiting for Rafael Correa himself to show up. This is where things would really get interesting. This could be checkmate in favor of Assange. Would United Kingdom police actually arrest Julian Assange if he was handcuffed to Rafael Correa walking out the front door? Ask yourself that.
If they get to the airport and fly out on his private plane, what if fighter jets show up? Would they go to the extent of forcing a plane down to land in an extradition country, even if Rafael Correa was on the plane? This is one hundred percent an international chess game.
The Vienna Convention and the UK Response
One of the things Ecuador is really leaning on is the Vienna Convention. The Vienna Convention states explicitly that granting asylum cannot be considered a hostile act. No nation can consider taking someone in asylum as a hostile act. The UK didn’t seem to care. Their reaction was pretty cool and dry. Their response was basically, “We have our rules. We’ve talked to them multiple times, we’ve tried to come to a peaceful resolution.” It’s like they just want to steamroll the problem.
We need to realize this is not one human just deciding. This is the result of complex debt, currency issues, geopolitical secrets intertwined with intelligence agencies, control groups, think tanks, and the public psyche. It’s all connected, this crazy ball of chaos being manipulated and poked and prodded from many different angles.
The WikiLeaks Insurance File
WikiLeaks is set to make a statement out front of the embassy on Sunday. Meanwhile, there is the insurance file that has been circulating. The torrent seeds have increased slightly in the last twenty-four to forty-eight hours. That file is getting shared a lot more now. The WikiLeaks insurance file is suspected to contain a huge trove of documents. If Assange were arrested, it would be released. This is a massive file, close to two gigabytes. It could be videos, it could be unreleased Apache helicopter videos. We know the Collateral Murder video was really just one of many, probably one of ten or twelve that have been recorded and are sitting on a classified hard drive somewhere that never saw the light of day.
TrapWire Surveillance and Censorship
WikiLeaks released emails just days before the police raid on the embassy about the TrapWire software. This was a treasure trove of information about TrapWire, through Abraxas Corporation, which is actually a subsidiary of Cubic Corporation. This has been fully exposed by Project PM. Abraxas has been specifically identified as working on TrapWire, which is software that runs in the cloud.
It does mass intelligence gathering. It links to all the cameras, links to GPS, looks at your license plates, does facial recognition, and has you on the grid at all times. You want to know what this is? Go rent the movie Eagle Eye with Shia LaBeouf. They want to be able to type any person’s name, identify them on the grid, pull up where they are, all the text messages they’ve ever sent, every document that exists about them, all the information available by typing a name into any single computer system. That is what TrapWire is. It is horrible. You need to be aware of it.
Something very concerning is happening in Australia, where six different articles about TrapWire were taken down. Posts were initially pulled down for bogus reasons with no explanation as to why completely accurate articles on the TrapWire software were censored. Australia is being censored right now.
Speaking Out and Taking Action
When it comes to the wars, anyone who tries to speak out is labeled anti-troop. It’s not about being anti-troop. We support the troops. Support the troops and bring them home. Do not support using troops to promote elitist agendas that are killing civilians every day and causing more harm than good. Be very specific when you talk about these things, use real talking points, and help deprogram friends and family who are stuck on the mainstream view of reality, the idea that terrorism is the big threat and the two-party system is working.
Every day you wake up, you have the chance to improve your surroundings. Every day you wake up, you can make the world a better place. You can bring something new to someone’s life they didn’t have before. How we think, how we feel, how we act on a daily basis, how we anticipate results to come from reality, it’s very much like a mirror. If you’re expecting the mirror to smile first, you’ll be waiting forever. You need to feel in your heart and in your soul that your life has value, that you have a voice, and that you can make a difference.
