{"id":370562,"date":"2018-07-23T21:10:13","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T20:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/ecuadors-agenda-squeezing-and-surrendering-assange-2\/"},"modified":"2018-07-23T21:10:13","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T20:10:13","slug":"ecuadors-agenda-squeezing-and-surrendering-assange-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/ecuadors-agenda-squeezing-and-surrendering-assange-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecuador\u2019s Agenda: Squeezing and Surrendering Assange"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_103298\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-103298\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/06\/8705672471_7719bf6f06_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/06\/8705672471_7719bf6f06_z.jpg 510w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/06\/8705672471_7719bf6f06_z-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by See Li | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>It is perhaps typical in a time where a star of\u00a0<em>Baywatch\u00a0<\/em>should feature as a political voice.\u00a0 Pamela Anderson\u2019s views are treated with judicious seriousness \u2013 at least in some quarters.\u00a0 Her association with Julian Assange has given needless room for columns on what, exactly, their relationship constitutes.<\/p>\n<p>Having such defenders as Anderson has added to his conspicuous support base, but it will not move those bureaucrats who are chewing pens in anticipation and pondering options as to how best to eject him from the Ecuadorean embassy (compound would be more fitting) in London.\u00a0Easily missed amidst the titter of celebrity gossip is the plight of an ailing Assange, who is facing the next critical stage of his stay at the Ecuadorean embassy.<\/p>\n<p>Since the changing of the guard in Ecuador, President Len\u00edn Moreno has shown a warmer feeling towards the United States, and a desire to raise the issue of Assange\u2019s stay in the embassy with US Vice President Mike Pence with the urgency of man desiring to be rid of a problem.\u00a0 The UK government has also been brought into the mix.\u00a0The forces against Assange are marshalling themselves with a renewed impatience.<\/p>\n<p>A squeeze evidently designed to break the will of WikiLeaks\u2019 publisher-in-chief was commenced in March, with a change of the embassy\u2019s Wi-Fi password effectively blocking his use of the Internet.\u00a0 Phone calls and visitations have also been curtailed.\u00a0The bill of Ecuadorean&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/07\/23\/ecuadors-agenda-squeezing-and-surrendering-assange\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by See Li | CC BY 2.0 It is perhaps typical in a time where a star of\u00a0Baywatch\u00a0should feature as a political voice.\u00a0 Pamela Anderson\u2019s views are treated with judicious seriousness \u2013 at least in some quarters.\u00a0 Her association with Julian Assange has given needless room for columns on what, exactly, their relationship constitutes. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-370562","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}