Assange's last video before communications cut at Ecuadorian Embassy in London - Polidicks

>WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange could be seen in his final video before Internet and communications were cut off at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London last March. {RT} >Ecuador cuts off Julian Assange's internet access at London emba.. (The Guardian) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_m3eO3c5Uw

World Tomorrow, or The Julian Assange Show, is a 2012 television program series of 26-minute political interviews hosted by WikiLeaks founder and editor Julian Assange.[1] Twelve episodes were filmed prior to the program's premiere.[2][3] It first aired on 17 April 2012, the 500th day of the "financial blockade" of WikiLeaks, on Russia's state sponsored RT.[4][5] List of Putin critics who have been poisoned or died under mysterious circumstances: Alexander Litvinenko Alexander Litvinenko was a former KGB agent who died three weeks after drinking a cup of tea at a London hotel that had been laced with deadly polonium-210. Anna Politkovskaya Anna Politkovskaya was a Russian journalist who was critical of Putin. In her book "Putin's Russia," she accused Putin of turning his country into a police state. She was murdered by contract killers who shot her at point blank range in the lift outside her flat. Natalia Estemirova Natalia Estemirova was a journalist who sometimes worked with Politkovskaya. She specialised in uncovering human-rights abuses carried out by the Russian state in Chechnya. She was abducted from outside her home and later found in nearby woodland with gunshot wounds to her head. No one has been convicted of her murder. Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova Human-rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov represented Politkovskaya and other journalists who had been critical of Putin. He was shot by a masked gunman near the Kremlin. Journalist Anastasia Baburova, who was walking with him, was also shot when she tried to help him. Boris Nemtsov Boris Nemtsov was a former deputy prime minister of Russia under Boris Yeltsin who went on to become a big critic of Putin — accusing him of being in the pay of oligarchs. He was shot four times in the back just yards from the Kremlin as he walked home from a restaurant. Despite Putin taking "personal control" of the investigation into Nemtsov's murder, the killer has not been found. Boris Berezovsky Boris Berezovsky was a Russian oligarch who fled to Britain after he fell out with Putin. During his exile he threatened to bring down Putin by force. He was found dead at his Berkshire home in March 2013 in an apparent suicide, although an inquest into his death recorded an open verdict. Berezovsky was found dead inside a locked bathroom with a ligature around his neck. The coroner couldn't explain how he had died. Paul Klebnikov Paul Klebnikov was the chief editor of the Russian edition of Forbes. He had written about corruption and dug into the lives of wealthy Russians. He was killed in a drive-by shooting in an apparent contract killing. Sergei Yushenkov Sergei Yushenkov was a Russian politician who was attempting to prove the Russian state was behind the bombing of an apartment block. He was killed in an assassination by a single shot to the chest just hours after his political organisation, Liberal Russia, had been recognised by the Justice Ministry as a party. I'm finding myself wondering, has Assange ever spoken on any of these topics? Does he even, in any capacity, criticize Russia nowadays? I can't recall, to be honest, and if you could enlighten me as to why you're convinced that he isn't at least somewhat in bed with the Russian state at the moment, that would be grand. Because right now, from my point of view, if there ever was anything, anything resembling an idealist who wanted to "Challenge the status quo" and make a better world in Mr. Assange, it died the day he took money and assistance from the Russian government. Now he's just a useful idiot who's fallen out of his depth as far as I'm concerned.

So you're telling me that he's not in cahoots with them, but that they sanction him and that without their support he would've been gone long ago, and that's why he doesn't criticize them... So... In essence, he's in cahoots with them. Thanks!

I'll probably never understand why the US public doesn't value this guy. He's being forced into being protected by Russia and will be squeezed for favors as a result. The man has been in isolation for almost a decade and people don't seem to appreciate the sacrifices he made to bring them information about their own government, rather screw blinkers into their own skulls so they don't have to think about it because the new game of thrones season is on soon. The work that Assange and others have been doing should be a Government officials job. We can't have this much secrecy in a democracy especially when it comes to totalitarian levels of surveillance and so on. He should be fully pardoned and allowed to continue his work on US soil.

I very much valued Assange's work. Y'know, before he became a component of the Russian intelligence and propaganda apparatus. Then my ability to value his work sorta' declined. Funny how teaming up with murderers sorta' taints one's viewpoint of an individual...

Ahhh, so it's... Collateral then. The Murder is just... Collateral, in the grand scheme of things, you're saying? What is Assange's master plan, by the way? Where's his endgame here?

Maybe I am forgetting what his deranged agenda is. That sneaky white haired bastard could be up to anything in that embassy. Tell me again what Wikileaks has done to ravage the people of the earth.

Does anyone here, on any level, realize that an incomplete truth can be just as dangerous as no truth at all? Perhaps even moreso? If Assange is working with Russia, then anyone who has even an inkling of self awareness must question everything that comes out of his organizations, even if it is from trustworthy sources, because the question that we're now forced to ask is "Why is he releasing this?" Is it a favor to Putin as repayment for the help? Was there other information which was withheld which would paint the information which has been released in a different light? Is this information being released at a calculated time in order to produce some specific effect, rather than simply for the sake of transparency? We cannot reasonably trust Assange if this is the case, it's not intellectually honest to do so...

I'm actually watching it right now! "You can do a calculation, how many deaths is each journalist responsible for, and I did it in the United States because- Not meaning to pick on it, but as figures for the total number of political journalists it's about 5000." Oh wow, is the entire video as high-quality as the part where he tries to tell me that all journalists in the United States are personally responsible for about five-thousand deaths a piece using vaguely-defined "mafs"?

I think you meant to say "go down in history as a hypocrite of mythic proportions who enthusiasticly contributes to something that embodies everything he supposedly stood against more than anything that's come before."

Because he is a serial liar complicit in a Russian campaign to destabilize the United States by leaking documents taken by Russian assets. This shit isn't hard, and you shouldn't be surprised that neither you nor Cigarettes are convincing anyone with dogshit arguments like;

Like your namesake, I'm fairly convinced at this point that your posts cause cancer. All you have to do is look at a lot of the email dumps to see that Assange has been playing favourites. It has been reported at length that he had negative information on the RNC but didn't release it for fear of helping Hillary's campaign, too. I'm pretty unconvinced that there's any merit to the assertion that Assange is a neutral transparency activist.

I've completely digested what you have written and responded in kind. I can cite every claim I made. Can you say the same? I mean, he himself has said that leaks about Russia and Trump just aren't very interesting. Those are his words, not pundits and certainly not mine. Besides, I thought you already had all the answers; he doesn't leak things about the Kremlin because he needs a schoolyard bully on his side, and it might as well be the most sadistic, desperate, psychotic bully on the block. I mean, he could just leave and get sent to the United States. He helped Trump win, I'm sure his administration will play nice :^) People thought he was a whistleblower before they received and interpreted new data showing a different conclusion. But nah, maybe everyone but you and Resonant are just dumb. So how about that next season of Thrones? Instead of these smug non-arguments can you try explaining why things are more complex than they appear?

so his site recieving and disseminating documents stolen by the russian government, and first offered to gop operations before being disseminated within hours of trump having a major stumbling has no connection whatsoever, or how he was trying to get to russia to avoid being prosecuted for his spying

I say this all the time but regardless of how sneaky Assange is with his politics what's important to me is information. "He's helping Russia destabilize the US." Okay, how? By releasing information that shows how the government is committing wrongdoings against the public? That's pretty fucking important information and I want to see it, regardless of where it comes from. You can fairly criticize him for not releasing the RNC emails, for instance, but that doesn't invalidate what he did release unless he's publishing outright falsehoods. Prosecuting him sets a precedent that will allow governments to silence people who publish leaked information and I get really frustrated when people zero in on Assange and don't see the bigger picture.

To paraphrase what Froztshock said, a partial truth can be just as good as a lie.

I say this all the time ... sneaky Assange ... He's helping Russia destabilize the US ... I get really frustrated ... Assange don't see the bigger picture ...

Because he picks and chooses what to release.

And everyone in this thread is talking about releasing evidence of government wrongdoing, when the fact is that he released unredacted documents that put innocent people at risk. What public benefit was served by releasing the names of Afghan interpreters, and informants within the Taliban, exactly?

> Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, claimed on Monday that all the documents released through his organisation had been checked for named informants and that 15,000 such documents had been held back. Sounds like some information slipped through the net. Feels more like a mistake when processing over a hundred thousand intelligence documents. Documents you shouldn't be angry about receiving in general. It's bad this happened but it would seem he took measures in preventing it from happening, I'm sure he had no intention of putting these people at risk.

assange is essentially a political prisoner

When WikiLeaks first became a thing in the public eye, sure, he was useful. He brought some transparency to government workings. But now he's just another political pawn. Whether he knows it or not, he let himself be used.

"My intention is to convince literally anyone else who stumbles upon these written words and uses their heads." You're doing a bang up job, mate. I mean, I may have reached the opposite conclusion as you have but stumbling upon your words and using my head is what did it!

I also completely forgot about the fact that he called the Panama Papers a US/Soros funded attack on Putin and Russia. Hey I mentioned that! I even forgot the time he leaked a document naming the Jews still living in Baghdad, or released a document containing the private information of tens of millions of people in Turkey.

No, but little jabs can be fun. The thorns are as much a part of the rose as the petals.

I mean

I'm glad that the info he's released has been released, but it's clear he's weaponizing it to suit his own/Russia's agenda. By withholding dirt on the Republicans he's lied by omission and actively helped Trump get into office.