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Hidden microphone found at Ecuador's Embassy in UK
by Sam Jones via minh - Guardian UK Thursday, Jul 4 2013, 12:02am
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Surveillance everywhere and numerous freedoms did shrink; surveillance everywhere but an easy matter to link!

Indeed, establishing exactly who planted the device and tracing signals is child's play. As the gross misconduct of European lackey nations in forcing Bolivia's presidential jet to ground in Austria and then illegally conducting a search indicated, it would appear that supremely arrogant America and its European allies/lackeys have cast propriety to the wind and could care less for any consequences arising from their overtly improper and offensive criminal activities.

President Correa

It is clear today that international laws, conventions and protocols governing the civilised affairs of men/nations have been ignored in favour of expediency and the 'whatever it takes' attitude of gangsters. Indeed, less civilised nations known for their gross breaches of international LAW and propriety are descending into a basic rule of the jungle ethic.

However, the offending nations constitute a powerful but not majority group of nations; the free nations of the world continue to have the upper hand both socially and militarily if they stand UNITED.

Surely now, at the eleventh hour, the choice between global neo-American Fascism and the FREEDOM to live as we choose becomes clear and a matter of urgency. Either we stand united against the unbridled evil that threatens law, order and everything civilised and decent in the world or we allow the most horrid evil to overtake our lives. Failure to act now for the good of all would probably result in darkness overtaking the earth -- make no mistake about the consequences of complacency, fear and social paralysis at this critical time in our history.

If 14 MILLION Egyptians are able to stand UNITED against one evil puppet of the plutocrats imagine what a united global population is able to accomplish? Once initiated, this irresistible force would scour the planet of the minority filth and evil that infects it.


Report from the Guardian follows:

Hidden microphone found at Ecuador's embassy in UK, says foreign minister

A hidden microphone has been found inside the Ecuadorean embassy in London, where the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is holed up, according to the country's foreign minister.

Ricardo Patiño said the device had been discovered a fortnight ago inside the office of the Ecuadorean ambassador, Ana Alban, while he was in the UK to meet Assange and discuss the whistleblower's plight with the British foreign secretary, William Hague.

"We regret to inform you that in our embassy in London we have found a hidden microphone," Patiño told a news conference in Quito on Tuesday.

"I didn't report this at the time because we didn't want the theme of our visit to London to be confused with this matter," he said.

"Furthermore, we first wanted to ascertain with precision the origin of this interception device in the office of our ambassador."

He described the discovery of the device as "another instance of a loss of ethics at the international level in relations between governments" and said he would reveal more details as to who might have planted the microphone on Wednesday.

The Foreign Office declined to comment immediately on the allegation, while a No 10 spokesman said he did not comment on security issues.

Assange has been living inside the embassy for more than a year to avoid extradition to Sweden to face allegations by two women of sexual assault and rape, which he denies.

He fears that if sent to Sweden he could be extradited from there to the US to face potential charges over the release of thousands of confidential US documents on WikiLeaks.

Ecuador's protection of Assange has strained relations with Britain.

After talking to Assange until four in the morning on 17 June, Patiño met Hague for fruitless negotiations on the affair.

The Foreign Office said "no substantive progress" had been made during the discussions, while Patiño told a press conference that Assange's situation was "totally unjust".

Patiño also said his government and Assange himself were prepared for a long waiting game, with the WikiLeaks founder telling him he was fit enough to spend another five years inside the Knightsbridge embassy.

Staff at the embassy are understood to have found the heavy police presence around their office intimidating. The round-the-clock police guard has so far cost more than £3.3m and has been described by Patiño as "a bit uncomfortable" for embassy employees.

Despite the discomfort and the diplomatic impasse, however, the Ecuadorean foreign minister has been careful to stress that his government had no intention of using espionage sleight-of-hand to whisk Assange off the premises.

"We're not going to have Mr Assange escaping from our embassy; we're not going to come up with some undercover operation to smuggle him out," he told reporters following his June meeting with Hague.

"We want to be open about this, we want to discuss the issue with the UK government … but if they insist on putting the police around our embassy, then OK, we respect that. But it's important that they know that Ecuador isn't going to do anything irregular; we're not going to smuggle Mr Assange out in the boot of a car or through and underground tunnel or something.

"The Ecuadorean government isn't going to go out through the back door, we're going to come out proud through the front door. We're going to ensure that he doesn't get smuggled out in a vehicle; we're going to ensure that he comes out facing his freedom - the freedom of our country. This is what we are hoping for."

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