I'm Welcome to Meteor Roots Radio. This is Abby Martin. This is Bobby Martin. Welcome, everybody. Welcome, everyone.

So there's a lot going on, but we wanted to focus this entire podcast on the arrest of Julian Assange, because it was just a really big moment.

It's a very scary moment, and it has a lot of grave implications, and we felt like it was appropriate to focus an episode on what happened and what we think it means. On April 11th of this year, just a few days ago, his asylum

was withdrawn and there was a lot of hints that this was coming. It seemed like it wasn't

happening and then all of a sudden it actually was

happening. He got arrested that same day once his asylum was withdrawn. The police were allowed to go

inside the embassy, the UK police, and pull him out of the embassy. And that's on video. You can

actually see it. And what was even more stupid, you know, typical Russiagate

hysteria after effects is the media ran stories saying, why was RT the first outlet to have

video of Assange getting arrested out of the embassy? It's like, well, why weren't you, CNN, UK? You

fucking idiots? You could have been there too. Yeah, it's like why were you guys staked

out front of Roger Stone's house? Yeah, exactly. Yeah. They're like mad. Ruppley, they were out there

every day leading up to this. Yeah, I mean, and that's one thing to our Russian media RT's

credit. One thing that they've always been

very good at, and that I would give them praise for as just a journalistic organization,

pretty much better than any other outlet on the planet of getting like really good crazy video

footage of stuff like before anyone else does. Like breaking news. Yeah, breaking. I mean, there's stuff that I saw the Manchester

bombing break on there, the Orlando nightclub shooting. They were breaking that for hours

before the mainstream media did. And I thought that was very interesting. I'm just going

off a total tangent at the beginning of the episode, so I should stop myself. But Julian Assange is now in U.K. custody in a U.K. jail.

We don't know yet what's going to happen with him being extradited to the U.S.

When obviously, though, that's probably the next step.

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