End of the ordeal for Julian Assange. The founder of Wikileaks has been reunited with his family after 12 long years of confinement in London.
Free Assange
The 52-year-old journalist admitted to having participated in a “conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defense information”. It goes without saying that Mandela's heir doesn't think a thing of it and that his sacrifice will remain a source of inspiration for a long time.
The agreement reached with the American authorities should be ratified this Wednesday by an American federal court. There is a good chance that he will be released since he has already served 1901 days of confinement. Julian Assange has been languishing in Belmarsh prison for five years. And this after having already endured seven years cloistered in the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
His crime? Having done his work as a journalist by disclosing documents revealing the war crimes of the American army in Iraq. These revelations were relayed via WikiLeaks, an organization founded by Julian Assange in 2006.
Wikileaks provides an audience for whistleblowers by hosting classified documents (leaks). Several million documents shedding light on scandals of corruption, espionage and human rights violations have been posted online since its creation.
The United States targeted Julian Assange after diplomatic cables on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars were leaked. Some will remember the Collateral murder video in which an Apache helicopter opened fire on Iraqi civilians, including two reporters, Saeed Chmagh and Namir Noor-Eldin:
Wikileaks and Bitcoin
One of Satoshi Nakamato's last messages was for Wikileaks which, betrayed by Paypal, intended to use bitcoin to continue receiving donations.
“The project must develop gradually so that the software has time to strengthen. I asks WikiLeaks not to use Bitcoin. Lhas small Bitcoin community is only in its infancy. You wouldn't get more than pocket money? The attention you would bring could destroy us”he wrote in 2010.
“It would have been better to attract attention in another way. WikiLeaks has hit a hornet's nest and the swarm is heading our way »he would add later.
Message received by Wikileaks which will wait until June 14, 2011 to put a bitcoin address online. At the time, WikiLeaks had its account frozen Paypal by order of the US government. Amazon, which hosted its content, will also eventually let go of WikiLeaks.
It was then the turn of Julian Assange's personal bank account (Swiss bank PostFinance) to be frozen. MasterCard and Visa also stopped processing WikiLeaks-affiliated transactions.
Lacking an alternative, WikiLeaks and bitcoin ended up growing hand in hand, both drawing their roots from the cypherpunk community. This alliance made it possible to continue the work with revelations such as Guantanamo Bay files, Spy Files, Global Intelligence Files, NSA spying, Macron email leak, etc.
Perhaps we would never have heard of these scandals without bitcoin. WikiLeaks saved an emerging bitcoin community from excessive political pressure. In turn, Bitcoin saved WikiLeaks from a financial blockade aimed at destroying it.
Bitcoin address to donate to Wikileaks : bc1qcme5u6v8a4ss855jsvgae59z20f05sky494qpa
War, Bitcoin and Freedom
The crossed destinies of Wikileaks and bitcoin should remind us that there is no freedom without financial freedom.
The examples are legion. Freezing of campaign funds of political parties, freezing of demonstrators' bank cards, disconnection of the SWIFT network and freezing of the foreign exchange reserves of entire nations, etc.
This is why the prospect of a world where cash is replaced by CBDCs (central bank digital currencies) is frightening. It would then be possible to silence anyone with a single click.
Many Orwellian scenarios could be envisaged. The British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak for example, recently declared that those who refuse to submit to military service will be debanked.
At a time when Western political puppets are fueling the war with hundreds of billions of dollars, let's bring the wise words of Julian Assange up to date:
“Almost every war in the last fifty years has been caused by lies spread by the media. The press prints government propaganda instead of stopping wars. People don't like war. They must be deceived into supporting the war. If we had good media, we would live in peace. »
As such, let us not lose sight of the fact that Ukraine, Palestine, Georgia, Taiwan, etc., are different facets of a confrontation whose Gordian knot is Washington's control over the international monetary system. And while the media serves us the usual propaganda, perhaps bitcoin will be Bretton Woods 2.0 which will help calm geopolitical tensions.
All this to say that Julian Assange is the hero of a generation. We must now hope that he will soon weigh in on the debate to defuse this Cold War climate.
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