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Hot take from @ggreenwald via RT from Moscow or Brazil: @wikileaks founder will be kicked out of Ecuador's London Embassy soon.

Long before the #metoo movement, Swedish authorities wanted to extradite @JulianAssange on rape charges before he jumped bail.

theintercept.com/2018/07/21/ecu…
But Assange says not to believe the woman and blames the US for his self imposed asylum, which is the only reason he hasn't departed the Embassy already, since Sweden dropped charges.
Which makes even less sense considering that Assange told Obama that he'd 'turn himself in' if recently defeated Maryland Senate candidate Chelsea Manning was released from jail, which happened over a year ago.

So... Why is he still seeking asylum now?

fortune.com/2016/09/16/jul…
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#THREAD

Yesterday's indictment is a major signal that we're nearing the end of the #TrumpRussia prologue.

I interviewed @Mimirocah1 about the story which she said indicates that "prosecutors are putting the pieces together."

I agree.

Here's my $0.02.

washingtonpress.com/2019/01/08/a-m…
Why is Natalia Veselnitskaya's link to the Kremlin so important?

1 - SDNY provides Mueller with apolitical evidence sent from the target that predates all investigations.
2 - Proves Don Jr. met a Kremlin Agent
3 - Burns the Russian prosecution against @Billbrowder

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Natalia Veselnitskaya had been working on the Prevezon case for years, but in 2014 she involved herself drafting of the official response to the DoJ's invocation of a treaty for legal assistance.

She sent the evidence that she worked with the Kremlin to SDNY prosecutors.

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I gotta say, @RepCohen has a point! Just look at the top news results for him, it's all Breitbart, Daily Caller and National Review.
Here's Rep. Steve Cohen's (D-TN) generic google search result toppers.
Here are Cohen's Google News results. MSNBC is buried way down under the fold, even though it's relatively brand new, no thumbnail photo, but the Breitbart White Nationalist propaganda website writes a daily hit piece, so they're at the top of everything.
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***THREAD***

Let me explain the former #Republican Congressman Curt Weldon whom I explained to @MuellerSheWrote that Special Counsel Mueller is now investigating as part of the #TrumpRussia probe as the author of the "back channel peace plan."

#Listen: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/mue…
FYI: The New York Times broke the story about a secret, back-channel peace plan from Ukrainian lawmaker Andrii Artemenko to Felix Sater to Michael Cohen and thereon being delivered to Gen. Flynn the NSA at the White House early in the Trump Administration

nytimes.com/2017/02/19/us/…
Curt Weldon wrote that Ukrainian-Russian "peace plan" with a Manafort-connected Ukrainian oligarch Alexander Rovt, for the war in which Putin is an aggressor in Feb. 2016 and @patrickLSimpson published it as a byproduct of our #GrandOldPutinParty series. thesternfacts.com/curt-weldon-ae…
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@ChristianUncut @businessinsider @BBCRoryCJ Here’s the thing: locally and nationally and internationally, the tech industry has gone from bright young star to death star. Not only have Silicon Valley companies turned out to be roughly as dirty in their corporate maneuvering as any old oil company or military contractor ...
@ChristianUncut @businessinsider @BBCRoryCJ ... but because of the Valley’s founder worship, they’ve been almost uniquely controlled by a tiny number of people. Where does this almost unbelievably bad news cycle end for these companies? And what if the news stays bad ...
@ChristianUncut @businessinsider @BBCRoryCJ ... but the people using their products simply can’t extract themselves from the platforms tech has built?
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On this, her 45th birthday, reasons Aishwarya Rai deserves your utmost respect: A Thread
1) Called out her abuser, by name, over 15 years ago when doing so was unheard of and almost certainly career-ending.
2) After SRK, arguably the most powerful man in the industry, had her removed from movies because of her abusive boyfriend's actions, she didn't forgive him until he and his wife personally apologized. She knew he was wrong, and waited until he admitted it to her face.
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#Russian🇷🇺diplomats held secret talks in London last year and plotted to smuggle Julian Assange out of #Ecuador’s London embassy in a diplomatic vehicle and transport him to #Russia.

But WikiLeaks isn’t a cutout for Russian intelligence or anything.🙄

theguardian.com/world/2018/sep…
Fidel Narváez (close Assange confidant) recently was Ecuador’s London consul & served as a point of contact w/#Russia🇷🇺.

Narváez previously tried to help Edward Snowden👉🏼travelled to Moscow & gave Snowden a “safe-conduct“ document.🙄

#SHOCKER
#TrumpRussia
Four separate sources said the Kremlin was willing to offer support for Assange’s escape plot – including allowing Assange to travel to #Russia🇷🇺and live there.

So NOT shocking.🙄

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Breaking: Possible Hand-Over Of Julian Assange To The UK May Be Imminent

disobedientmedia.com/2018/07/breaki…
For any idiot with a blue checkmark who might claim that only Russian media is reporting this story, that is far from the case. In the last few days, award-winning journalist @ChrisLynnHedges wrote:

archive.is/FUUa9#selectio…
.@WSWS_Updates reported in June:
"Ecuador’s foreign minister has indicated moves are underway to force the WikiLeaks editor out of Ecuador’s London embassy, where he was granted political asylum six years ago."

archive.is/4kDj3
#ReconnectJulian #FreeAssange #Unity4J
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Revealing breakdown via @PewResearch—the key divide in partisan affiliation isn't age, it's race.

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The #MeToo movement in action: 70% of millennial women identify as Democrat, up 14 points in the last four years.
The growing education gap: non-college voters gravitate to the GOP as college/postgrads tilt Democrat.
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