{"id":48423,"date":"2019-09-12T11:04:57","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T16:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48423"},"modified":"2019-09-12T11:04:58","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T16:04:58","slug":"assange-varoufakis-brexit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48423","title":{"rendered":"Assange, Varoufakis, Brexit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theautomaticearth.com\/2019\/09\/assange-varoufakis-brexit\/\">Assange, Varoufakis, Brexit<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wikiart.org\/en\/max-ernst\/the-angel-of-the-home-or-the-triumph-of-surrealism-1937\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theautomaticearth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/MaxErnstThe-angel-of-the-home1937.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><figcaption>Max Ernst\u00a0<strong>The Angel of the home or the Triumph of Surrealism\u00a0<\/strong>1937<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A friend of mine here in Athens, Greece, named Wayne Hall, who\u2019s of Australian descent but moved here at about the time Napoleon headed for St. Petersburg, and works as a translator and language teacher, sent me a mail a few days ago that I thought was interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In particular, Wayne referred to a video I didn\u2019t know existed, of Julian Assange hosting a get-together in the Ecuadorian embassy in London on the night of the Brexit referendum, June 23, 2016, that includes a video (sound) link to Yanis Varoufakis who was in Rome at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Julian was receiving visitors and broadcasting! How times have deteriorated, it\u2019s heart-rendering, and it\u2019s so painfully good to see him here in better days\u2026. That video is below. The sound quality of Varoufakis speaking is really bad, and I don\u2019t have the equipment here to work on that, but Wayne was kind enough to transcribe it. See also below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What I found especially intriguing is the difference in view between the two: Varoufakis wanted (wants) the UK to stay in the EU, in order to reform it from within. And he thinks (thought) that his cross-European party, DiEM 25, can play a role in that. Even though it has no seats in the EU parliament, not then, and not now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Assange, on the other hand, was pretty much pro-Brexit. He was quite clear about this (a few hours before the referendum results were in):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>[..] if there is a Leave or even if the vote is very close, which it surely is, it is something that calls into question the political legitimacy of the European Union in the way it has been conducted so far. And really it\u2019s quite incredible that it came to this.\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\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, Varoufakis, Brexit A friend of mine here in Athens, Greece, named Wayne Hall, who\u2019s of Australian descent but moved here at about the time Napoleon headed for St. Petersburg, and works as a translator and language teacher, sent me a mail a few days ago that I thought was interesting. In particular, Wayne referred [&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":[2,6],"tags":[14976,40,5582,2269,279,7007,26367,27156,7331,5177,3138,27157],"class_list":["post-48423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-liberty","tag-assange","tag-austerity","tag-brexit","tag-cartel","tag-eu","tag-juncker","tag-legitimacy","tag-raul-elargi-meijer","tag-schaeuble","tag-the-automatic-earth","tag-varoufakis","tag-wayne-hall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48423","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=48423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48424,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48423\/revisions\/48424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}