Various strands of events that all seem to, just by pure chance, culminate around august 20 2010.
main strand
August 20, 2010: Sophia Wilén and Anna Ardin enter a police station in the afternoon, to ask about STD tests... and the whole thing explodes.
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internal wikileaks riot strand
August 26, 2010, Newsweek publish an article that is using an apparent internal informer within wikileaks. This leads Julian Assange to confront and throw out Domscheit-Berg within a matter of days.
http://www.newsweek.com/blogs/declas...of-itself.html
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The confrontation can be seen in an abundantly reproduced chat session. We lack exact date, but a good guess is that these events were around september 1, 2010 or not much later.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/201...lt/#more-19539
http://www.news.com.au/world/wikilea...-1225929447362
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September 2, 2010: Swedish pirate party blogger "Rasmus" writes a post raising Birgitta Jonsdottir to the sky as a great politician and gaia poet.
http://copyriot.se/2010/09/02/krisla...ch-populismen/
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September 3, 2010. Birgitta Jonsdottir makes her public attack on Julia Assange, both calling him a malechauvinist and presenting herself - erroneously - as central to the wikileaks organisation, talking about how JA should step aside and similar things.
Curiously enough, Birgitta states to the press that she is not MAD at Julian, thus revealing that there is something VERY personal going on here.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/interna...#ixzz0ya9IFHUI
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-a...=hp:mainpromo5
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some more speculative material about possible icelandic connections:
https://www.flashback.org/sp25291070
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September 4, 2010: The very same pirate party blogger "Rasmus" writes a weird, somewhat hysteric attack on Julian Assange.
http://copyriot.se/2010/09/04/wikile...n-talesperson/
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September 4, 2010: Unknown persons within wikileaks try to steal the wikileaks twitter account and make JA unable to use it. They seem to fail.
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Late september 2010: the internal riot goes public and turns into openleaks, involving the same persons: Domscheit-Berg, Jonsdottir.
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the public twitter coterie strand
example:
https://www.flashback.org/sp28052224
twitter is at the center of events also in december 2010, with the #prataomdet-campaign started by Anna Ardins friend Johanna Koljonen.
the public twitters of Anna Ardin for the period show how the visit of Julian Assange to sweden is loudly announced and mixed in with the social life of some small political coteries.
some samples:
august 10 AA announces partying with Johanna Koljonen and others
august 11 AA twitters that Julian will speak on saturday, where, emails for public and press:
Julian Assange, wikileaks, sem 11 lör LO-borgen! Anmäl till Jan@broderskap.se, prio för press @kristenvanster #fb
august 14 AA twitters that Julian wants to go to a crawfish party and asks seats in one
august 15 AA twitters from the crawfish partythat it is 2 am and it is amazing to sit outdoors and freeze with the worlds coolest and most smart people.
Oh, the irony of that twitter. Julian on the party had just, she will later claimed, raped her...and she will promptly delete the twitter
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the swedish government strand
We are back to august 20, 2010, the day AA and SW went to the police station. We are back to a crawfish party too. Yes, two traditional swedish crawfish parties are at the center of this story, and yes some have sadly enough mixed them up.
This is the traditional crawfish party of the swedish government, held out in the country quite a bit from Stockholm. Everyone is there, and most are getting plenty drunk, from ministers to specially invited persons to ... of course ... a whole bunch of journalists.
The swedish foregin minister is informed, during the party, of the arrest of Julian Assange in his absence. Did a journalist overhear? Well, that is one speculation. But who needs an eavesdropping journalist when the swedish police is apparently leaking all secret information to the tabloid Expressen as a matter of routine...
Anyway, the swedish government is directly involved from the first second in this story.
And those are busy days, within less than a month it is swedens parliamentary election, held once every 4 years.
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"the us government pressure on other countries strand"
Pressure about wikileaks were especially strong during august.
august 10, 2010:
"The Obama administration has asked Britain, Germany, Australia, and other allies to consider criminal charges against Julian Assange for his Afghan war leaks"
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-a...-on-wikileaks/
A whole book could be written about this, and not least about the curious events earlier during 2010 involving Iceland, but I am just trying to make short summary
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The american military delegation to Sweden strand
This is the most remarkable, and the most neglected of them all!
thanks cylobine for putting together material:
https://www.flashback.org/sp25147980
So, we are back to august 20, 2010 again. Yes, that very same date.
admiral Gary J Roughead, highest ranking officer of the american navy, visits sweden and is shown military installations in Karlskrona august 19.
August 20 he, together with joint chiefs of staff, Gary J Roughead and a large american entourage of adjuntants and security personnel assembles at the swedish defense head quarters in Stockholm.
It is a unique event. Never before has such a hing ranking us officer made a visit to Sweden.
I will just say one more thing here, to get you thinking in the right direction. I will shout it:
SITUATION ROOM
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That was just a few strands. There is still the police strand, jumping on a comparatively minor legal case by sending out large amount of plain clothes policemen covering the night clubs of Stockholm the night of august 20, in hope of arresting JA. And of course we have all those insane swedish prosecturos in the legal system working all weekend. And we have the social democrat party strand, with former ministers and members of parliament now being directly involved in this case as lawyers, but fighting their case more in the tabloids than in the court.
Strand upon strand, just by chance all those various chains of events culminating around the very same day: august 20. 2010. Stockholm. What is this, jungs synchronicity at work or time to really put on the tin foil hat?