uk.reuters.com/article/2012/08/18/uk-wik...dUKBRE87H08R20120818

It seems the Ecuador-British spat has galvanised South America

Woops Mr. Hague

Mr Assange, who has been holed up in the embassy since June, is set to give a statement at 2.00pm local time
www.abc.net.au/news/2012-08-19/assange-t...sh-continues/4208210

Should be very interesting

Don't know how Assange stands all that pressure. Must be singing "Hold on tight to your dreams"

Have a different time table here in Chile, will probably see it tomorrow.

It seems the problem is how to get out of the embassy. I imagine he is going to try and put as many eyes on this as possible and make it as big as possible. Not really sure after that.

mikey mikey wrote:
I hope it's a recording made within the Embassy previously, and he's long gone from there.

www.ustream.tv/channel/occupynewsnetwork

cos the BBC is lying

imageshack.us/photo/my-images/152/assangeu.jpg/
enough police there?

BBC News just described the hundreds outside the Embassy as "a handful of supporters"

Pity they just showed dozens of police march by.

WTF is that for then?

ONE MAN?

Question from the cheap seats AKA average American area:

I hear time and time again that this guy was:

1. Jeopardizing our boys' safety overseas by exposing secret documents and thus an enemy.

2. Spreading falsehoods and thus an enemy.

3. Proven time and time again to be spreading outright lies thus jeopardizing our boys over seas.

4. Nobody likes the guy which is why he has finally found asylum in some crap, third world, anti-American dump with no hot water and bacteria galore, rife and abundant.

Still, I want to know why this guy keeps popping up in the news so I can judge for myself.

Thank you.

P.S. I'm not kidding. I've only heard negative about this guy. Why? I wish to learn to make my own judgement. There's been too much buzz about him to ignore!

Sincerely,

An American from the cheap seats.

If Ecuador is such a shitlhole in their opinion, and he is such a shit, then why are they moving Heaven and Earth to stop him getting there?

Hes on the balcony now

I haven't had such a big shiver go down my spine in years.

I feel we have just witnessed a historic moment.

Time to put the foot down.

No Pasaran!

dubmeup wrote:
Without doubt a historic speech

Now will the UK will send in the troops for Julian made a political statement?

I have to admit, I was half expecting him to get shot on the balcony.

I can't hear it properly!

Did they say he's going to give himself up to the police?

Then he's a dead man walking.

Mikey - Coco didn't say he's a shit at all - she said that's all she's heard, and wants to know more about him so she can judge for herself what this is all about.

Coco - I've got to log off in 1 minute, but when I'm back on later, I'll dig up some stuff for you.

Coco wrote:
Good question Coco, to which I will offer one word in response.
Propaganda.

andyh wrote:
the police would have looked complicit

Central London is the most heavily sureyed are on the planet by all accounts

and the region containing the Embassies doubly so

Gilly wrote:
I was addressing the the voices she seemd to be referring to.

I never she said that she said he was a shit.

I was pointing out how inconsistent the voices anti-Assange are in conflict with what they are calling for

Good point.

mikey mikey wrote:
It didn't seem to stop them with JFK