This Week on GR
July 15, 2021
Welcome back to Gorilla Radio’s Home Edition, recorded on the dates, July 10th and 11th, 2021.
Crusading publisher and founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange spent
his 50th birthday last week just as he had his 49th and 48th, in
solitary at London’s Belmarsh Prison. Assange was snatched by British
authorities from Ecuador’s London Embassy April 11th, 2019, the place
he’d been granted sanctuary in 2012. He said back then he feared
extradition to the United States to be punished for WikiLeaks’ release
of the infamous Collateral Murder video and other revelations of U.S.
criminality. Nearly ten years later, Assange waits in stir as America
prepares an appeal of Britain’s dismissal on humanitarian grounds of its
first attempt to have him delivered to Washington.
A major element of America’s case against Assange rests on the
testimony of Sigurdur Ingi Thordarson, a controversial figure who in a
recent interview with Stundin, an
Icelandic news site, admits to providing false testimony to the FBI.
Bjartmar Oddur Þeyr Alexandersson co-wrote the article that has Assange
allies hopeful for his release at long last.

Bjartmar Alexandersson in the first half.
And; it was an international sensation in 2018 when, as like in a
Hollywood thriller; a Russian hit squad attempted to rub out a former
double-agent in an audacious, broad daylight “military-grade” chemical
attack in the heart of Salisbury, a town known more for its Early
English Gothic cathedral than international intrigue.
Tensions got so high for a time, it was thought L’Affaire Skripal
could even lead to war! And no-one perhaps was a more sympathetic
character in the story than Detective Sergeant Nick Bailey, collateral
victim of the deathly, Novichok chemical agent. Imagine everybody’s
surprise then when the now former Detective Sergeant inadvertently
revealed he’d never actually been exposed to Novichok!
John Helmer is a journalist, author, broadcaster, former political
advisor to government, and principal behind the news website, Dances with Bears.
Among Helmer’s many books titles are, ‘The Lie That Shot Down MH-17’,
‘The Man Who Knows Too Much About Russia’, and his latest, ‘Hitler
Didn’t Die in Berlin – He Moved to Melbourne Where He Runs the State
Government of Victoria: A True Covid-19 Thriller’. He’s also the author
of ‘Skripal in Prison’ a compendium of his many articles on the Skripal
case. His latest on the matter at Dances with Bears is, ‘DETECTIVE SGT NICK BAILEY HAS ANNOUNCED NOT ANOTHER WORD ON NOVICHOK AND THE SKRIPAL CASE‘.

John Helmer and the curious and curiouser case of the once talkative and now silent detective in the second half.
But first, Bjartmar Oddur Þeyr Alexandersson and ‘Key Witness in Assange Case Admits to Lies in Indictment‘.