Note: There is an article in today’s edition of The Australian by Julian Assange that is worth reading.
Julian Assange, the editor in chief of WikiLeaks, turned himself in at a London courthouse earlier today, based on an international extradition warrant. In a hearing today, he was denied bail because he is considered to be a flight risk, and is now in custody. Assange is accused by Swedish authorities of one count of unlawful coercion, two counts of sexual molestation and one count of rape. He denies the charges, which many have suggested are politically driven — they seem to involve actual events featuring sex without condoms.
Swedish investigators told AOL News that Assange was not wanted for rape per se, but for something else that they call “sex by surprise,” or what it described as a “condom malfunction.” [Note, I am developing this angle in the comments area, below.]
The Cablegate story, of which Wikileaks is at the center, involving the release of hundreds of cables circulated among United States diplomats, has rearranged not just the landscape of both journalism and government the past nine days. It is an event so huge that it’s difficult to see it for what it is.
On the scale of world events, it is the equivalent of tectonic movement, or of the planet itself shifting its alignment or orbit. The astrology and other factors suggest this will be an event with far-reaching implications and is a defining moment of the 21st century. In a sense, it is the first real answer to the cataclysm of the Sept. 11 attacks and their aftermath.
The Guardian reported this morning that “WikiLeaks have condemned the arrest as an attack on media freedom. Sources claim that the group currently has no plans to publish an insurance encryption code that will release the remaining, unpublished classified cables. In his online chat with the Guardian last Friday, Assange suggested the code would be released if ‘something happens to us’.”
Before reading the chart, let’s consider the context: what is being called Cablegate is the most significant thing to affect government and journalism for many decades — certainly, the most significant since the Pentagon Papers and the Watergate investigation. But I think it’s bigger than the two multiplied by one another. Assange has turned the ‘national security state’ that has towered above the world since Sept. 11 inside-out. He has revealed the lies that are perpetuating the wars that have killed hundreds of thousands of people. Then, the one-world government responds by accusing him of alleged crimes that occurred in his most private moments. This is a highly unusual legal proceeding, and I doubt if this type of international legal instrument has ever been used against a person for the allegations described. Indeed, remember that the United States military let even Osama bin Laden, supposedly the most wanted man in the world, go free at the battle of Tora Bora in late 2001.
The chart for Assange turning himself in is shown above. As you can see, it’s complex chart, with many planets clustered in the 12th house — the house of secret matters, right above the horizon. The Sun has just crossed a point called the Great Attractor, and is lurking just inside of the 12th house, suggesting that the size and scope of the matter at hand is enormous. Other factors (including the pending Mercury retrograde that begins Friday) suggest that this will be an extremely complex judicial proceeding, though Assange himself may be free, presumably on bail, in what seems like a stroke of fortune. [Note, as of 10:25 am, MSNBC is reporting that Assange was denied bail. “If anyone looks through the details of the case in Sweden, this should not have happened,” said John Pilger, renowned documentary filmmaker a supporter who is on-scene in London. “He has made some very powerful enemies.”]