{"id":51046,"date":"2020-02-09T11:07:21","date_gmt":"2020-02-09T16:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=51046"},"modified":"2020-02-09T11:07:24","modified_gmt":"2020-02-09T16:07:24","slug":"ray-mcgovern-german-tv-exposes-the-lies-that-entrapped-julian-assange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=51046","title":{"rendered":"RAY McGOVERN: German TV Exposes the Lies That Entrapped Julian Assange"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2020\/02\/06\/ray-mcgovern-german-tv-exposes-the-lies-that-entrapped-julian-assange\/\">RAY McGOVERN: German TV Exposes the Lies That Entrapped Julian Assange<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A major German TV network has aired an interview with the UN rapporteur on torture that reveals the invention of the Swedish \u201crape\u201d case against Julian Assange.<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>T<\/strong>ruth has broken through for those confused about how a publisher ended up in a maximum security prison in London with a one-way extradition ticket to court in the U.S. and the rest of his life behind bars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the main German TV channels (ZDF) ran two prime-time segments on Wednesday night exposing authorities in Sweden for having \u201cmade up\u201d the story about Julian Assange being a rapist.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Until last night most Germans, as well as other consumers of \u201cmajor media\u201d in Europe, had no idea of the trickery that enmeshed Assange in a spider-web almost certainly designed by the U.S. and woven by accomplices in vassal states like Sweden, Britain and, eventually, Ecuador.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ZDF punctured that web by interviewing UN Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer. One ZDF \u201cHeute Sendung\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdf.de\/nachrichten\/heute-19-uhr\/200205-heute-sendung-19-uhr-100.html\">segment<\/a>&nbsp;(in German) is especially telling from minute 13:00 to 15:30 . The<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdf.de\/nachrichten\/heute-journal\/heute-journal-vom-5-februar-2020-100.html\">&nbsp;second<\/a>&nbsp;is ZDF \u201cHeute Journal\u201d (minute 25:49 to 30:19.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both ZDF programs show Melzer being interviewed, with minimal interruption or commentary, letting his findings speak for themselves about how allegations against Assange were \u201cmade up\u201d and manipulated to hold him captive.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The particularly scurrilous allegation that led many, including initially Melzer, to believe Assange was a rapist \u2014 a tried and tested smear technique of covert action \u2014 was especially effective.&nbsp; The Swedes never formally charged him with rape \u2014 or with any crime, for that matter.&nbsp; ZDF exhibited some of the documents Melzer uncovered that show the sexual allegations were just as \u201cinvented\u201d as the evidence for WMD before the attack on Iraq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAY McGOVERN: German TV Exposes the Lies That Entrapped Julian Assange A major German TV network has aired an interview with the UN rapporteur on torture that reveals the invention of the Swedish \u201crape\u201d case against Julian Assange. 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