In light of new revelations about CA does the meeting between Farage and Assange have new meaning?

[triron]

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/apr/23/when-nigel-farage-met-julian-assange?CMP=share_btn_tw

[Phoenix61]

1. That is a darn good question.

Want to bet Meuller is busy looking for the answer?

[triron]

3. Another OPed from the Guardian talks about the "unholy alliance"

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/oct/28/trump-assange-bannon-farage-bound-together-in-unholy-alliance

[hedda_foil]

8. Thanks! I'm snipping a couple paragraphs that leapt out at me. Check this out.

Try to follow this on a daily basis and it’s one long headspin: a spider’s web of relationships and networks of power and patronage and alliances that spans the Atlantic and embraces data firms, thinktanks and media outlets. It is about complicated corporate structures in obscure jurisdictions, involving offshore funds funnelled through the black-box algorithms of the platform tech monopolists. That it’s eye-wateringly complicated and geographically diffuse is not a coincidence. Confusion is the charlatan’s friend, noise its accessory. The babble on Twitter is a convenient cloak of darkness.

Yet it’s also quite simple. In a well-functioning democracy, a well-functioning press and a well-functioning parliament would help a well-functioning judiciary do its job. Britain is not that country. There is a vacuum where questions should be, the committees, the inquiries, the headlines on the TV bulletins. What was Nigel Farage doing in the Ecuadorian embassy? More to the point: why has no public official asked him? Why is he giving speeches – for money – in the US? Who’s paying him? I know this because my weirdest new hobby of 2017 is to harry Arron Banks, the Bristol businessman who was Ukip and Leave.EU’s main funder, and Andy Wigmore, Leave.EU’s comms man and Belize’s trade attache to the US, across the internet late at night. Wigmore told me about this new US venture – an offshore-based political consultancy working on Steve Bannon-related projects – in a series of tweets. Is it true? Who knows? Leave.EU has learned from its Trumpian friends that black is white and white is black and these half-facts are a convenient way of diffusing scandal and obscuring truth.

What on earth was Farage doing advancing Calexit – Californian Brexit? And why did I find a photo of him hanging out with Dana Rohrabacher, the Californian known in the US press as “Putin’s favourite congressman”? The same Dana Rohrabacher who’s met with Don Trump Jr’s Russian lawyer and – wait for it – also visited Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian embassy. And who is now interceding on his behalf to obtain a pardon from Don Trump Junior’s dad.

(You got this? Farage visited Trump, then Assange, then Rohrabacher. Rohrabacher met Don Trump’s Russian lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya. Then Assange. And is now trying to close the circle with Trump.)

[triron]

9. Hope mueller knows more than we do about this.

[hedda_foil]

11. Me too, triron. Me too.

[BigmanPigman]

2. It all is connected.

It reminds me of the scene in A Beautiful Mind and they see all the stuff that he has been working on in secret in his office and how it is a bunch of pictures and papers with red string connecting each thing to 25 other things...

[triron]

4. We may need a 'John Nash" helping Mueller, eh?

[Eyeball_Kid]

5. Name the Association!

Farage, Mercer, Putin, Assange, Bannon, Deripaska, Stone, Nunberg, Rohrabacher, Flynn, Dugin, LaPen, Trump, Kislyak...

[triron]

6. antithetical to the established western democratic civilization

[poboy2]

7. Someone should make a deck of cards like they did for Saddam and Co. during the Iraq war.

[struggle4progress]

10. Assange's claims that he's been invited to testify on Cambridge Analytica

By Dianne Apen-sadler For Mailonline
PUBLISHED: 15:50 EDT, 20 March 2018 | UPDATED: 16:02 EDT, 20 March 2018

Julian Assange claimed earlier today that he had accepted an invitation to testify on Cambridge Analytica - but now the MPs involved have said he actually offered to appear.

Assange, who has been holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London since 2012 after being accused in Sweden of rape and sexual assault by two women, tweeted earlier today about accepting the select committee's 'request'.

The Wikileaks founder wrote: 'I have accepted a request by the select committee of the UK parliament @CommonsCMS to give evidence, via video link, about Cambridge Analytica, and other matters, later this month.'

... within half an hour of his tweet the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, who are running an inquiry into fake news, ... tweeted: 'Mr Assange has offered to appear before the DCMS Committee, but no formal invitation has been issued for him to attend' ...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5524113/MPs-hit-Julian-Assange-Cambridge-Analytica-testifying-claim.html

[triron]

13. Could be revealing if it happens.

But will he be truthful??

[struggle4progress]

14. He has some serious psychiatric problem: nobody of sound mind

would have chosen the constricted life he has chosen for himself

[struggle4progress]

12. If he was involved in Brexit, I'd expect an embassy in London to be shuttered