Trichromatic Posted August 16, 2012 Posted August 16, 2012 Eyebrows raised over U.K threat to Ecuador Britain’s decision to invoke an obscure domestic law to threaten to strip the Ecuadorian embassy in London of its diplomatic status over the Julian Assange asylum row has caused surprise and is seen as setting a dangerous precedent. The Diplomatic and Consular Premises Act 1987 allows the Government to revoke the diplomatic status of an embassy under certain circumstances — this potentially paves the way for the police to enter the Ecuadorian mission in London to arrest Mr. Assange for breaching his bail conditions.
superstar Posted August 16, 2012 Posted August 16, 2012 Leaders of the free and civilized world. Lol. Brits are a bunch of thugs.
yoda Posted August 17, 2012 Posted August 17, 2012 So a criminal enters an embassy and seeks asylum and gets it, he is free from prosecution? I am not saying assange is one, just that it can't be that a country can't enter an embassy under any circumstance.
Trichromatic Posted August 17, 2012 Posted August 17, 2012 So a criminal enters an embassy and seeks asylum and gets it' date=' he is free from prosecution? I am not saying assange is one,[b'] just that it can't be that a country can't enter an embassy under any circumstance. They can't do that in most of the countries. For ex - Britain had to introduce that law because someone shot a British police officer from Libyan embassy building and they couldn't arrest anyone even when shooter was not a diplomat.
Crookbond Posted January 17, 2013 Posted January 17, 2013 A parcel for Mr. Assange This is kind of surreal - straight out from a Hollywood movie book. :nervous: http://54.243.29.30/assange/
Crookbond Posted January 17, 2013 Posted January 17, 2013 Just in case, if the link is not working follow this on Twitter - https://twitter.com/bitnk/ It is really exciting. Here's the e-mail sent to Assange about the parcel - http://pastebin.com/44m5UViP
Sachin=GOD Posted April 9, 2013 Posted April 9, 2013 Assange launches own search engine that 'rivals Google' WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has unveiled the new search engine, which is a portal to an archive of 1.7 million US diplomatic cables. The search engine named PLUS D (The Public Library of United States Diplomacy), includes 250,000 leaked State Department cables that were made public during Cablegate, the time in US history where memos of Henry Kissinger's time as US Secretary of State were made public. Over 251,000 of those cables relate to events or communications between 2003-2010, News.com.au reports. According to the report, Assange confirmed that the US state department documents listed on PLUS D are already declassified and much of the information has already been available in the US National Archives and Record Agency. Assange said that the range of publicly-available documents range in the number of two million and were therefore not efficient to search through, the report said. The Australian activist said Plus D would make it easier for journalists to conduct investigations, by using a search algorithm that "rivalled Google". http://www.hindustantimes.com/technology/WebService-Reviews/Assange-launches-own-search-engine-that-rivals-Google/SP-Article1-1039666.aspx
Crookbond Posted June 27, 2013 Posted June 27, 2013 WikiLeaks Volunteer Was a Paid Informant for the FBI http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/06/wikileaks-mole/ Thordarson was long time volunteer for WikiLeaks with direct access to Assange and a key position as an organizer in the group. With his cold war-style embassy walk-in, he became something else: the first known FBI informant inside WikiLeaks. For the next three months, Thordarson served two masters, working for the secret-spilling website and simultaneously spilling its secrets to the U.S. government in exchange, he says, for a total of about $5,000. The FBI flew him internationally four times for debriefings, including one trip to Washington D.C., and on the last meeting obtained from Thordarson eight hard drives packed with chat logs, video and other data from WikiLeaks. Want to know about a real life spy? Check Thordarson out.
akshayxyz Posted June 27, 2013 Author Posted June 27, 2013 ^ $5000 is too less, I would be impressed if Thordarson was actually spying FBI for Julian :). /conspiracy
maniac Posted June 27, 2013 Posted June 27, 2013 I beleive snowden is next too...Ecuador might be the next Australia lol or overtake it with all these brilliant renegades
Crookbond Posted June 27, 2013 Posted June 27, 2013 ^ $5000 is too less, I would be impressed if Thordarson was actually spying FBI for Julian :). /conspiracy Are you following Snowden news closely? I'm unable to follow it to the T. I just heard that he's unable to get to Ecuador from Moscow despite Ecuador denouncing US aid to allow him in. Meanwhile, Moscow is trying to extract the best out of the situation to bargain with the US it seems. I just hope they don't turn him over.
punjabi_khota Posted June 27, 2013 Posted June 27, 2013 Obama saying "I am not going to scramble jets to just get this one guy" ...behe^&*!@# aukad hai teri Russia mein jets scramble karne ki...
maniac Posted June 28, 2013 Posted June 28, 2013 Obama saying "I am not going to scramble jets to just get this one guy" ...behe^&*!@# aukad hai teri Russia mein jets scramble karne ki... :haha: He called him "some hacker guy"......Obama better turn a blind eye to this, rather than make this guy a bigger hero and get more negative attention...Ecuador mein Wikileaks ke saath aish karne do bacche ko....They were becoming irreleveant ,so he might have brought some life to them.Rab ne Bana di jodi
Sachin=GOD Posted July 10, 2013 Posted July 10, 2013 London’s police spend over $16,000 per day to stake out Julian Assange But Metropolitan Police commissioner hopes the Home Office will reimburse. According to a new letter from the Metropolitan Police, London is spending an average of £10,982 ($16,384) per day to stake out the Ecuadorian Embassy where Julian Assange has been holed up for the last 386 days. Earlier this year, Ars attempted to interview Assange at this embassy, but the WikiLeaks founder did not respond to our queries. The letter was sent by the Met to London assembly member Jenny Jones on July 1, 2013 and received a week later on July 8, 2013. The document states that of the total £3.8 million ($5.6 million) spent between June 2012 and the end of May 2013, £0.7 million of that represented “increased overtime payments.” The Met seems to dismiss Jones' concerns that London itself will have to pay such a huge amount to stake out one man. “Although the Metropolitan Police has not yet formally sought reimbursement from the Home Office regarding these costs, we are now in early discussions with Home Office officials regarding this,” writes Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, commissioner of the Met, in the letter. “This is primarily a diplomatic matter and as a result the Foreign and Commonwealth Office are leading the government efforts to resolve this. The MPs are closely involved in discussions over this and we will continue to regularly review our approach.” London Mayor Boris Johnson also spoke out at a parliamentary committee on Tuesday, lambasting this high cost. “It’s absolutely ridiculous that money should be spent on frontline policing,” he said. “It’s completely wasted.” http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/07/londons-police-is-spending-11-per-minute-to-stake-out-julian-assange/
coffee_rules Posted July 10, 2013 Posted July 10, 2013 ^I am sure the CIA/US Govt will foot the bill.
superstar Posted July 10, 2013 Posted July 10, 2013 I can sit outside the embassy and watch for 1/2 the price
Mariyam Posted July 11, 2013 Posted July 11, 2013 So the guy runs an organization which encourages people to leak classified information and we some how find him to be a hero? I would have more respect for Wikileaks and for Assange if they limited their involvement to Whistle blower type activity where an individual can expose an organization (including govt) involved in illegal activities than leaking govt classified information and embarrassing governmental exchanges. Assange's (and Snowden's) actions are absolutely in the spirit of the ideas of many of America's founding fathers, including Thomas Jefferson, the 3rd President of the USA. He'd confided in a letter to James Madison, Malo periculosam, libertatem quam quietam servitutem,meaning - I prefer dangerous liberty to peaceful slavery.
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