{"id":45310,"date":"2019-04-12T13:27:34","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T18:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45310"},"modified":"2019-04-12T13:27:39","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T18:27:39","slug":"assange-arrested-brexit-squashed-just-another-day-in-the-empire%ef%bb%bf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45310","title":{"rendered":"Assange Arrested, Brexit Squashed \u2014 Just Another Day in the Empire\ufeff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tomluongo.me\/2019\/04\/12\/assange-arrested-brexit-squashed-just-another-day-in-the-empire\/\">Assange Arrested, Brexit Squashed \u2014 Just Another Day in the Empire<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And down goes Julian Assange, right beside Brexit. If there was ever any doubt that The Powers That Be are unrelenting in their cruelty just look at the 24 hours starting on Wednesday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First Theresa \u201cThe Snake Oil Lady\u201d May kicks 17.4 million voters into the weeds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And then she oversees the arrest and judging of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The timing of this is important beyond dovetailing it with her Brexit betrayal. They had to go after Assange now, because Theresa May\u2019s time in office is ending.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Jeremy Corbyn-led government would not grant the U.S. it\u2019s prize.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Corbyn, for all of his faults, would be a breath of fresh air in the unraveling of the \u2018special relationship\u2019 between the U.S. and U.K. in foreign policy for as long as he lasted in office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Still think Theresa works for anyone other than her owners?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Still think the opposition to Corbyn predicated on his \u201cSocialism\u201d isn\u2019t anything other than a coordinated psy-op? It\u2019s no different than the narratives spinning around Trump being a Nazi or a Russian stooge, except that Corbyn actually is a socialist.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But, he is also far more independent than anyone in the British political class wants running the country, that much is certain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump is running for re-election opposing \u201cSocialism\u201d in the U.S., Venezuela and soon, Cuba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Leave campaign, thanks to May, was focused for the week leading to Assange\u2019s arrest on her sitting down, \u201cwith an avowed Socialist.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">May and Trump are captured figures, dutifully doing their owners\u2019 bidding.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This 12 hour period may be the most brazen abuse of a Western nation by its government that I\u2019ve seen.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But nothing surprises me about the evil of Theresa May anymore.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assange Arrested, Brexit Squashed \u2014 Just Another Day in the Empire And down goes Julian Assange, right beside Brexit. If there was ever any doubt that The Powers That Be are unrelenting in their cruelty just look at the 24 hours starting on Wednesday.&nbsp; First Theresa \u201cThe Snake Oil Lady\u201d May kicks 17.4 million voters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5582,259,21273,16963,827],"class_list":["post-45310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-brexit","tag-empire","tag-gold-goats-and-guns","tag-tom-luongo","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45311,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45310\/revisions\/45311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}