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Breaking: Met police confirm that Julian Assange has been arrested at the Ecuadorian embassy.
Mr Assange took refuge in the embassy seven years ago to avoid extradition to Sweden over a sexual assault case that has since been dropped.
The Met Police said he was arrested for failing to surrender to the court.
Ecuador's president Lenin Moreno said it withdrew Mr Assange's asylum after his repeated violations to international conventions.
But WikiLeaks tweeted that Ecuador had acted illegally in terminating Mr Assange's political asylum "in violation of international law".
[...] Scotland Yard said it was invited into the embassy by the ambassador, following the Ecuadorian government's withdrawal of asylum.
After his arrest for failing to surrender to the court, police said he had been further arrested on behalf of US authorities under an extradition warrant.
He doesn't look happy, to say the least.
Update: As this is a breaking story, more information is coming out regularly - one source that updates their reports frequently is Zero Hedge - thanks boru!
Previously: New Analysis of Swedish Police Report Confirms Julian Assange's Version in Sweden's Case
Ecuador Reportedly Almost Ready to Hand Julian Assange Over to UK Authorities
UK Said Assange Would Not be Extradited If He Leaves Embassy Refuge
Inadvertent Court Filing Suggests that the U.S. DoJ is Preparing to Indict Julian Assange
U.S. Ramping Up Probe Against Julian Assange, WikiLeaks Says
Ecuador Denies That Julian Assange Will be Evicted From Embassy in London
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 11 2019, @01:46PM (21 children)
But will Trump go against the military on this one? He claims to "looooove" the military, so this will test his ... um ... fuck, it's a coin flip.
(Score: 4, Funny) by DannyB on Thursday April 11 2019, @02:01PM (20 children)
A Trump decision is not a coin flip. It is a Schrodinger's Kittens superposition of states. Each kitten has a Cheshire cat like state connected to the other kittens with non locality distance less than the planck length.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 11 2019, @02:45PM (2 children)
So wait. Are you telling me Trump is a quantum computer?
My God!
(Score: 4, Funny) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Thursday April 11 2019, @04:26PM
Claims to have all the answers now but really not enough current knowledge to solve things a pocket calculator can?
A really popular and over-hyped subject that real people shouldn't care about in the slightest but are fascinated with?
Something which promises to revolutionize everything yet nothing has really yet changed except a whole bunch of money has been spent without real result?
Yep. Trump is a quantum computer by that definition.
This sig for rent.
(Score: 3, Funny) by sjames on Thursday April 11 2019, @05:15PM
More like an evil Beowulf cluster of quantum magic 8-balls.
(Score: 4, Funny) by tangomargarine on Thursday April 11 2019, @02:59PM (2 children)
Comparing Trump to a Shroedinger's Cat doesn't work though, because that implies that after being observed he settles on one opinion and sticks with it.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 4, Insightful) by DannyB on Thursday April 11 2019, @03:08PM (1 child)
But he DOES stick with it.
BREAKING NEWS - - - BREAKING NEWS - - - BREAKING NEWS - - - BREAKING NEWS
FoxNews Alert: We have always been at war with Europe!
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 11 2019, @07:21PM
To be fair all politicians change their view, they are just better at lying. Thats why they are called... politicians.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 11 2019, @03:34PM
Well, that explains his hair color.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 11 2019, @03:36PM (10 children)
Its not complicated - trump says and does whatever he thinks is best for him in the moment. Its been well established the guy has narcissistic personality disorder.
What's interesting is the origins of the disorder in childhood. One leading theory is that genetic tendencies are exacerbated by an environment where the child can not rely on future relief from emotional stress. For example, a bullied child can usually rely on having a loving mother at home who will kiss their booboos and make them feel safe and secure. A child without that, or even worse a child with a mother who abuses them instead of nurturing them, leaves the child without hope that the future will be better. That warps their time perception - they don't develop a strong distinction between past/present/future. They understand the concepts, but their brain doesn't "live' in a time linear fashion. Instead its more like a perpetual state of "now" - like the worst kind of living-in-the-moment.
Consequently they literally don't have the mental facilities required to be consistent. They are only ever concerned with dealing with whatever is directly in front of them. They only care about consistency to the point where it can be used to get them what they want right now. Otherwise its literally not important to them. Truth or lies, promises made yesterday, promises made 2 minutes ago, its all about soothing the constant emotional injuries of daily life. Which is why they are also so prone to fits of impotent rage when they can't make the pain go away by bullshitting. In a sense they are the ultimate snowflakes.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 11 2019, @03:59PM (1 child)
Nah, he isn't delusional. That is just his attitude towards life:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/transcript-of-donald-trump-interview-with-the-wall-street-journal-1515715481 [wsj.com]
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Thursday April 11 2019, @04:35PM
The two are not incongruent with each other.
This sig for rent.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday April 11 2019, @04:11PM (7 children)
MODDED UP!
And this is a fair description of a few people on this site I can name too...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Bot on Thursday April 11 2019, @04:44PM (6 children)
Someone wants to try feeding some psychoanalytic AI all of Azuma's kind outbursts of compassion towards other SN users, so that she can finally be certified with Mother Theresa levels of sanity?
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 11 2019, @07:39PM (2 children)
ButthurtBot always whining. One could easily conclude its all about soothing the narcissistic injury of realizing others can see his psychic wounds more clearly than he can himself.
Cue more whining.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Thursday April 11 2019, @09:18PM (1 child)
>Others can see his psychic wounds more clearly than he can himself.
I find it difficult to believe, you miss a lot of detail. It's like tele-surgery, you don't smell the blood.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 11 2019, @10:08PM
Exactly as predicted dude. As someone suffering the personality disorder as described, you literally can't let a perceived narcissistic injury pass without trying to hit back because its the only way for you to self-sooth. The irony of it all is that we can all see through you, but you are opaque to yourself.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 11 2019, @11:36PM (1 child)
Your response is so weird. Azuki bean didn't name any names, didn't even describe any particular events. Just a generic "there are some of those here too."
A healthy mind would have said "yeah, sure, there are some really disturbed people on soylent" and kept on going. A disordered mind would see a personal attack in a generic statement like that and get defensive. A remarkable self-own there.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday April 12 2019, @02:03PM
Except of course, your bean has named names. We all know who she talks about when she starts talking about Soylent members.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday April 12 2019, @02:01PM
Now, that's some funny shit, Bot. If you start standup comedy, I want to attend.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday April 11 2019, @03:37PM (1 child)
No, it's a coin flip. He just calls heads AND tails.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Bot on Thursday April 11 2019, @09:20PM
He is not a real politician until he throws the coin and it disappears already.
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