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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Sat Aug 6, 2016, 09:27 AM Aug 2016

Wikileaks founder will address Green Party convention

Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange will speak at the Green Party convention in Houston via live stream, the Houston Chronicle reported. Assange is scheduled to speak Saturday at 11:45 a.m. local time from the Embassy of Ecuador in London, making a high-profile speech on the third day of the convention, before the party officially picks its nominee.

Assange will be interviewed by 2004 Green Party presidential nominee David Cobb, party officials said in a statement on Friday.

Wikileaks made headlines last month when it released thousands of emails on the eve of the Democratic convention that showed some party officials had worked to back Hillary Clinton’s campaign from behind the scenes.

The emails made supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders furious and prompted the resignation of DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

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http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/290610-wikileaks-founder-will-address-green-party-convention

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Wikileaks founder will address Green Party convention (Original Post) DonViejo Aug 2016 OP
This message was self-deleted by its author rjsquirrel Aug 2016 #1
I wonder if Hillary will attend, and then live tweet the whole damn thing... MadBadger Aug 2016 #2
Will it be at Motel 6 or Travelodge? rjsquirrel Aug 2016 #4
Lol. Worse and worse. Another "how low can they go?" Hortensis Aug 2016 #3
But without newkirk's anti-black activism bluedye33139 Aug 2016 #6
Hadn't read that about her. Backed slooowly away from the Hortensis Aug 2016 #7
Wonderful DemocratSinceBirth Aug 2016 #5

Response to DonViejo (Original post)

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
3. Lol. Worse and worse. Another "how low can they go?"
Sat Aug 6, 2016, 09:35 AM
Aug 2016

Somehow I don't think Kremlin tool Julian Assange's hostile meddling in our election has endeared him to America's mostly-silent-until-the-voting-booth electorate.

And, of course, the Greens' new VP candidate is a far-left extremist focused on black rights who thinks Cornell West and Bernie Sanders are both basically establishment hacks and talks in convoluted 1960s revolutionary jargon.

Don't see what any of this has to do with the environment. Under Stein they're starting to act like PETA under creepy animal murderer Ingrid Newkirk -- anything for attention.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
7. Hadn't read that about her. Backed slooowly away from the
Sat Aug 6, 2016, 09:48 AM
Aug 2016

PETA website long ago. Good grief!

But, yes. Embracing passionate would-be VP Baraka is a whole new turn for the Green Party. They're still trying to decide what to make of it over on JPR. He rejects Bernie's movement and them, so most not unreasonably denounce him and the Greens they once considered making into America's major left-wing party, but others profess interest in his revolutionary messages, while a faction are too smart to be fooled and realize this is all part of the giant conservative Democratic Party conspiracy to take over America for big business.

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
5. Wonderful
Sat Aug 6, 2016, 09:37 AM
Aug 2016

Vladimir Putin is using Russian hackers to selectively leak information to Julian Assange in a plot to embarrass the Democrats and help his stooge Donald Trump.

Traitors.

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