Efforts by Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to fight extradition to the US are in high gear ahead of his court appearance today. Assange who has been in the custody of the UK police since being arrested in April has vowed to fight the extradition ‘as long as it takes’. An order from the UK government … Read more
By CCN.com: WikiLeaks Co-Founder Julian Assange has been sentenced to 50 weeks in jail by a UK court for violating bail conditions back in 2012 when he took refuge inside the Ecuadorian embassy as he feared being extradited to the U.S. via Sweden. Julian Assange will now have to spend at least half of his sentence, … Read more
Could it be a coincidence that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) handed the Republic of Ecuador a sweet $4.2 billion staff-level financing deal at the end of February, and 50 days later the Ecuadorian embassy invites London police in to arrest Julian Assange and hand him over to the United States?
That looks suspicious as hell, doesn’t it?
Fox News host and conservative commentator Sean Hannity has long been a supporter of Wikileaks and Julian Assange. That is, it seems, until around the time Assange was arrested in London after being holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy for six years. Julian Assange’s Plight Meets Grisly End, Extradition to US Likely Within hours of … Read more
WikiLeaks’ Julianne Assange’s days of holing up in an Ecuadorian embassy to avoid extradition have come to an end.
In just a few hours, he’s been arrested and found guilty of a variety of charges. The most recent development was a U.K. judge finding him guilty of breaking his bail conditions.
In response to a tweet lauding her for her stance on congressional protection for whistleblowers, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted that “solitary confinement is torture” and specifically called on the United States to release Chelsea Manning. Related: Chelsea Manning has been trapped in solitary confinement for refusing to answer questions before a Grand Jury. Solitary confinement is … Read more
As unprecedented charges of rigging have loomed over the U.S. presidential election, much attention has focused on the capability of blockchain technology to make voting more transparent. Joseph Lubin, the founder of ConsenSys and the co-founder of Ethereum, observed in an article in Futurism that decentralizing technologies have important implications for not only improving elections, … Read more