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Swedish software developer who is allegedly close to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is arrested
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Posted on 04/11/2019 6:56:52 PM PDT by janetjanet998

BREAKING: Swedish software developer who is allegedly close to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is arrested at Quito airport, Ecuadorian official says.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2018; 201904; assange; bini; blackmail; chevron; christophergowen; correa; ecuador; hillarysemails; judicialwatch; julianassange; leninmoreno; manafort; moreno; olabini; pence; rafaelcorrea; stevendonziger; wikileaks
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To: compuguru

Moreno is an ally, but he’s a “dirty” ally — not that I am sure there is such a thing as a “clean” politician in Ecuador. Correa is likely worse, and a committed Socialist as well.


21 posted on 04/11/2019 9:29:48 PM PDT by Paul R. (The Lib / Socialist goal: Total control of nothing left worth controlling.)
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To: compuguru

Moreno is a US ally, I should clarify...


22 posted on 04/11/2019 9:31:18 PM PDT by Paul R. (The Lib / Socialist goal: Total control of nothing left worth controlling.)
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To: Paul R.

*** Moreno likely dallied, trying to squeeze $$ out of the US. ***

He got 182 million in debt relief via US/IMF, IIRC.


23 posted on 04/11/2019 9:49:57 PM PDT by sockmonkey (I am an America First, not Israel First FReeper.)
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To: DesertRhino

Oh, bull crap.


24 posted on 04/11/2019 11:50:17 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: Steve Van Doorn

Of course, the media pounces once he said that in response to the question “Do you still love Wikileaks?” Must be “Russia collusion is back” and/or “Twenty-Fifth Amendment” time.


25 posted on 04/12/2019 6:06:04 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Revel

Unless Pam Anderson got a full cavity search at Heathrow, I think I’m pretty sure I know where the encryption keys are.


26 posted on 04/12/2019 6:54:06 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Olog-hai
From "“Do you still love Wikileaks?”"

good point. "love" is the key word he was answering.
Sometimes I'm slow

27 posted on 04/12/2019 9:31:53 AM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: Paul R.

Interesting. Thanks for the additional info and replies.


28 posted on 04/12/2019 11:47:13 AM PDT by compuguru (De Oppresso Liber)
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To: al baby
What about those IT guys from the DNC ?


29 posted on 04/12/2019 1:14:13 PM PDT by samtheman (To steal an election, who do you collude with? Russians in Russia or Mexicans in California?)
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To: janetjanet998

Many mysterious Arkancides are about to occur.


30 posted on 04/12/2019 3:03:15 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Capitalism produces EVERYTHING Socialists/Communists/Democratic-Socialists wish to "redistribute.")
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To: Fedora
Drop a case against Chevron, which he gladly did as well.

Speaking of the case against Chevron:

How did Imran Awan come to be represented by a lawyer who is close to both Bill and Hillary Clinton? Mr. Awan, so far as one knows, does not know the Clintons personally. But his chief protector, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, certainly does. The Florida congresswoman was an outspoken ally of Hillary Clinton during her 2008 and 2016 presidential runs. And Awan’s attorney, Christopher Gowen, is also a former employee and longtime friend of the Clintons. He began his legal career on Debbie Wasserman Schultz’ home turf as a Miami-Dade County public defender. Later he would be a founding partner of Gowen Silva & Winograd, a law firm with offices in Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia. His most famous (or infamous) highlight as a litigator was his defense of a fellow lawyer, Steven Donziger, who, according to a federal district court, had submitted fraudulent evidence in order to win a $9.5 billion class-action suit on behalf of several Ecuadorean citizens against Chevron; the U.S. Supreme Court last June ruled against Donziger in affirming the judgment of his unsuccessful appeal. Gowen during the George W. Bush years worked as a travel aide for Bill Clinton and for then-Senator Hillary Clinton. He also was a fact checker for Bill Clinton’s 2004 presidential memoir, My Life, and the principal advance man for Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign. … ------------- The Mysteries of the House IT Scandal, NLPC, 6/18/18 | Carl Horowitz http://nlpc.org/2018/06/18/the-mysteries-of-the-house-it-scandal/ http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3665844/posts

31 posted on 04/13/2019 11:07:31 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: piasa

Good catch!


32 posted on 04/14/2019 1:41:24 AM PDT by Fedora
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To: Fedora

Oh, look, the Chevron / case is still very much in the news:

Dutch Supreme Court Rules for Chevron in Ecuador Dispute
Business Wire via YAHOO,, April 15, 2019
finance.yahoo.com
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/dutch-supreme-court-rules-chevron-202800449.html

The plaintiffs’ other attempts to enforce the judgment in jurisdictions around the globe have also failed:
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In December 2015, the Supreme Court of Gibraltar issued a judgment against Amazonia Recovery Ltd., a Gibraltar-based company set up by the plaintiffs’ attorneys and investors to receive and distribute funds resulting from the Ecuadorian judgment, awarding Chevron $28 million in damages. The Court also issued a permanent injunction against Amazonia prohibiting the company from assisting or supporting the case against Chevron in any way. The court issued a similar ruling in May 2018 against the directors of Amazonia, Frente de Defensa de la Amazonia, and Ecuadorian attorney Pablo Fajardo for their role in attempting to enforce the ruling, this time awarding $38 million in damages to Chevron.
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These failed efforts to enforce the Ecuadorian judgment were led by adjudicated racketeer and suspended lawyer Steven Donziger. In 2018, Donziger was suspended from practicing law in New York State and Washington, D.C. after having been found by U.S. federal courts to have engaged in a longstanding pattern of racketeering activity in procuring the Ecuadorian judgment, including multiple acts of fraud, bribery and judicial corruption.


33 posted on 04/16/2019 1:40:09 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: Fedora

Gibraltar Supreme Court Awards Chevron $38 Million Against ...
https://chevroncorp.gcs-web.com/news-releases/news-release-details/...

May 25, 2018 · SAN RAMON, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—May 25, 2018— The Supreme Court of Gibraltar has issued a judgment against Pablo Fajardo, Luis Yanza, Ermel Chavez, Frente de Defensa de la Amazonia (the “Front”) and Servicios Fromboliere for their role in a conspiracy to procure and attempt to enforce a fraudulent Ecuadorian judgment against Chevron.


34 posted on 04/16/2019 1:49:42 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: Fedora

The case- includes the lawyer’s shakedown scheme:

https://www.italaw.com/sites/default/files/case-documents/italaw3114.pdf


35 posted on 04/16/2019 1:58:49 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: Fedora

This was tied into a 2008 change to Ecuador’s constitution calld the “Rights of Nature”... backdoor excuse to give the government more control over the land and the indigenous people.


36 posted on 04/16/2019 2:11:21 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: piasa

Essentially it is a way to steal people’s property- be they natives or anyone else, by eliminating property rights.


37 posted on 04/16/2019 2:15:10 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: piasa
The Chevron case appears to be a political football between Correa and Moreno, with Correa on the side of Chevron's prosecutors: Ecuador: Correa Accuses Gov’t of US Pact After Chevron Ruling
38 posted on 04/16/2019 5:23:56 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: Fedora

Correa works for Russia Today... surprise. Just did an interview of Oliver Stone who is claiming he’s being censored.


39 posted on 02/01/2020 12:49:08 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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