{"id":34368,"date":"2018-05-19T11:33:17","date_gmt":"2018-05-19T16:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34368"},"modified":"2018-05-19T11:33:17","modified_gmt":"2018-05-19T16:33:17","slug":"have-we-all-been-silenced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34368","title":{"rendered":"Have We All Been Silenced?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Have We All Been Silenced?<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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Leonard Misonne Waterloo Place, London <\/b>1899<\/center><\/p>\n

Let me start by saying I have nothing against the English newspaper The Guardian. They publish some good things, on a wide range of topics. But they also produce some real stinkers. And lately they seem to publish quite a few of those. On Wednesday there was an entire series of hit pieces on Julian Assange, which I wrote about in I Am Julian Assange<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And apparently they\u2019re not done. As I said on Wednesday, the relationship between Assange and the paper has cooled considerably, after The Guardian\u2019s initial cooperation with Wikileaks on files Assange had shared with them. But does that excuse hit pieces, personal attacks, innuendo, suggestive and tendentious writing, in bulk?<\/p>\n

There was one more article in the hit pieces series on Wednesday:<\/p>\n

Assange \u2018Split\u2019 Ecuador And Spain Over Catalan Independence <\/a><\/p>\n

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Julian Assange\u2019s intervention on Catalan independence created a rift between the WikiLeaks founder and the Ecuadorian government, which has hosted Assange for nearly six years in its London embassy, the Guardian has learned. Sources who spoke on condition of anonymity said Assange\u2019s support for the separatists, including a meeting in November, led to a backlash from Spain, which in turn caused deep concern within Ecuador\u2019s government. While Assange\u2019s role in the US presidential election has been an intense focus of US prosecutors, his involvement in Spanish politics appears to have caused Ecuador the most pain.<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n

The Ecuadorians cut Assange\u2019s internet connection and ended his access to visitors on 28 March, saying he had breached an agreement at the end of last year not to issue messages that might interfere with other states. Quito has been looking to find a solution to what it increasingly sees as an untenable situation: hosting one of the world\u2019s most wanted men.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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