Thread by @paul_furber

1/ What's going on with @JulianAssange?

@JulianAssange 2/ Rewind to early 2016. #sethrich leaks a bunch of sensitive emails to @wikileaks via @KimDotcom, who remember, is on the record as saying Seth Rich was the leaker. Wikileaks would have a material impact on the 2016 election campaign.

3/ Just before the DNC Convention, @wikileaks released emails from seven key DNC staff members that suggested the party worked to sabotage the BS campaign. DWS resigned on the eve of the event as a result.

4/ @JulianAssange had said there was more to come in an interview with ITV on June 12.

"We have emails related to Hillary Clinton which are pending publication," he replied when pressed. "That is correct."

I thought the DNC emails were the 'more to come'.

5/ In September, @JulianAssange was smeared, both as a Russian spy who received *puts pinky to mouth* ONE MEELION DOLLARS from the Russians, and also as a child molester.

Fabricated nonsense.

6/ October 3, @wikileaks released the fact that HRC wanted to drone Assange. October 4th, @wikileaks held a press conference and said its October surprise was not far away. October 7, it starts releasing the Podesta emails in batches.

@wikileaks 7/ October 14, Podesta tweeted this out.

8/ October 15, @wikileaks released the transcript of a speech HRC gave to Goldman Sachs, causing her campaign further embarrassment. At lunchtime Pamela Anderson visited Assange in the embassy and said she had brought him a vegan sandwich.

9/ At 5pm, the Ecuadorean Embassy severed his Internet connection. The mood of everyone watching this was very tense for obvious reasons: @JulianAssange was probably about to get vanned by the Feds. It didn't help when John Kerry arrived in London the next day.

10/ @wikileaks tweeted out three hashes on Oct 17 - one to Kerry, one to the UK FCO and one to Ecuador. I was on 8chan /pol/ following along when some anon chimed in:

"Read it here first: Ecuador has caved to pressure from Clinton and Co. Assange is being extradited."

11/ That day #FBIAnon appeared on 4chan /pol/ for the 7th and final time and we asked him whether JA was dead yet.

""No," he said. "Very scared, but still alive. Whether or not that will change in the next few days is questionable."

12/ We asked him about the leaks and he had this to say:

"When you are reading Podesta's e-mails, remember that the Clintons deal in weapons, drugs, and people. Some terminology in use is far more nefarious than many of you suspect."

Yeah, #Pizzagate originated with #FBIAnon.

13/ On the 18th, heavily armed police took up position around the embassy. @FoxNews reported JA was going to be arrested in the next few hours. @wikileaks accused JK of putting pressure on Ecuador.

One theory was Pamela had brought JA a drugged sandwich to stop him suiciding.

14/ On the 21st there was a massive DDoS against the US internet and Podesta himself arrived in London. There was also an unspecified chemical scare at London airport. It was obvious he had been kidnapped out of the embassy and was being rendered.

15/ The simplest proof of life - a wave from the window - didn't happen. He appeared in various suspicious interviews over the next couple of weeks that never showed him on screen with his interviewer. His voice sounded strange on audio. It was just shady all round.

16/ Bitcoin was attacked on the 26th. The mempool was flooded with transactions that had ridiculously high fees, slowing throughput to a crawl. Anons were wondering whether JA had a 'dead man's switch' and if he had hidden it in the Bitcoin blockchain. That was possible.

17/ Bitcoin lets you attach arbitrary data to a transaction. JA had hidden Cablegate in the blockchain this way - if you followed a serious of transactions in the right order you could assemble the Cablegate leak archive. I did this for myself on my own mining rig and it worked.

18/ I spend a good three months trying to find what he'd hidden in there, working with other anons on Endchan. The attacks we got were like nothing I'd seen - really bad slides, floods of child porn, anon groups vanned. It just confirmed that the Final Leaks were there.

19/ But I didn't have any luck and I went back to #pizzagate digging instead. In May 2017, @JulianAssange appeared on the balcony at the embassy.

He was alive and well.

20/ I took a hard look at everything that had happened and came up with a theory: the Obama administration HAD tried to render him but the good guys had got to him first, spiriting him out of the embassy just before he was kidnapped.

21/ All that dead man's switch stuff, the interviews and the blockchain was a LARP - by @JulianAssange himself, because obviously he couldn't tell the world he had been rescued in the nick of time.

@JulianAssange 22/ What were HRC's goons going to say on the 17th?

"He's gone!"

Not a chance.

23/ Then MegaAnon - bless her - confirmed at least part of my theory on 4chan.

"Hypothetically, if a covert, exhaustive effort had been made, to "save" Assange from an intercepted, impending and immediate threat against his life...

24/

"...then one could ONLY ASSUME that an EQUALLY exhaustive effort, to make him disappear from ANYONE LOOKING FOR HIM, would also be made."

"People like you, unknowingly begging him to EXPOSE HIMSELF, via requests for the "proof of life" he could NEVER FOLLOW THROUGH ON."

25/ Bingo. @JulianAssange was spirited out of the embassy on Oct 17. How did he appear on the balcony in May? He was spirited back of course to make his appearance and then returned to his safe house. But he hasn't been in the embassy since then.

@JulianAssange 26/ I had a long chat with @jerome_corsi in late December last year and he reckons he's not even in the UK any more. We were decoding #qanon's Christmas Day post which is clearly addressed to Assange.

10, [10-9] = 10,1 = JA

27/ My overall point is: @JulianAssange hasn't been anywhere near the Ecuadorean Embassy since May last year when he did his brief cameo for appearances. What we're watching now is theater.

All is under control.