In the first minute of the video, he is asked about "this final week of the election campaign". Also, he refers to the following Podesta email that was released on October 10th, which is quite clearly more recent than 46 days.
This is nothing more than a silly conspiracy theory.
Looking at the video more, I agree with you that this is more recent.
However, I don't see any reason to believe that wikileaks itself is not compromised.
Wikileaks is saying assange is in control, wants to give proof, does not give proof, releases hashes, releases files that don't match the hashes, and despite all the calls for proof of life, they do nothing.. which if assange is still alive is possibly his way of trying to get people to not trust wikileaks anymore because it's been compromised and he can't say anything about it. (1) because they're not letting him and (2) because ecuador might kick him out for revealing the truth
Until the man himself gives some proof that he is alive and in control of the organization, I see no reason to trust wikileaks.
If you start going looking for evidence that you are right about this, you will keep finding it, due to confirmation bias, and you will never let the conspiracy theory go. The only thing which I think is reasonable to suspect at present is that Assange's internet was cut off, and wasn't reinstated after the election. Once you go beyond that you are into conspiracy theory territory. To shut up the whole of Wikileaks in all the countries it operates in, would be a conspiracy of such massive proportions that the chances of it being pulled off are negligible.
If you think about it, Assange normally appears in interviews via some internet based conference software. If he hasn't got internet, he can't do that. So the only interviews you will see for a while are ones like Pilger's, where the interviewer actually goes into the embassy.
I'm not looking for evidence that "I'm right".. I have nothing to be right about, I'm not even claiming anything.
All I know is that it doesn't look like Assange has control of wikileaks anymore, and until he offers proof himself that he does, I find it unreasonable to just blindly trust re-assurances from nameless twitter posts.
What possible proof could Assange offer to convince everyone that he is "in control of Wikileaks"? And why should/would he do that for you personally. There's probably a thousand people demanding Assange offer proof of this or that.
I'm not suggesting he do anything for me personally (?) And yes, there are thousands of people demanding proof that he is alive, that's the whole point of this post.
The fact that he and wikileaks aren't providing this despite saying they want to is the topic of discussion.
And as far as what possible proof.. GPG signed statement would be preferable. This can easily be accomplished without internet. Even a video statement would be somewhat acceptable. Wikileaks held a poll asking for how people wanted proof, and video was the top response. None was supplied.
I'm not seeing it.