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Assange Has Signed Book Deals Worth $1.5 Million+
cold fjord writes "Julian Assange has signed a major book deal for his autobiography worth more than one million pounds (1.2 million euros, 1.5 million dollars).
Assange told Britain's Sunday Times newspaper that the money would help him defend himself against allegations of sexual assault made by two women in Sweden.
'I don't want to write this book, but I have to,' he said. 'I have already spent 200,000 pounds for legal costs and I need to defend myself and to keep WikiLeaks afloat.' The Australian said he would receive 800,000 dollars (600,000 euros) from Alfred A. Knopf, his American publisher, and a British deal with Canongate is worth 325,000 pounds (380,000 euros, 500,000 dollars).
Money from other markets and serialisation is expected to raise the total to 1.1 million pounds, he said.
Assange is currently out on £240,000 bail under what his lawyer refers to as not so much 'house arrest' as 'manor arrest', fighting extradition to Sweden for questioning. The Telegraph adds, 'Mr Assange said he regarded himself as a victim of Left-wing radicalism. Sweden is the Saudi Arabia of feminism,' he said. 'I fell into a hornets' nest of revolutionary feminism.' .... A full extradition hearing is due in London on February 7th."
Yea, I'm sure Uncle Sam is going to tax the shit out of a non US citizen for income earned overseas. I'm also sure that if he did owe US taxes he wouldn't pay them.
Clearly you're fucking retarded.
Please don't let your admiration for Assange's work with Wikileaks prevent you from taking seriously an accusation of rape. Rape is a serious crime, and accusations of rape need to be taken seriously, even if--perhaps especially if--they are made against people we otherwise consider to be heroic.
I don't really give a fuck about Assange, but I am impressed with your stupidity.
You realize that he is not being charged with rape, you drooling retard?
Do people even READ these days, Jesus...
this 'rape' wordage regarding this business befuddles me. the women CONSENSUALLY had sex with the person. then, they have openly and legally declared that the sex was consensual. EVEN after the rape allegations.
yet, fscking american media still talks of 'rape'. when you look into legalese of that rape in swedish law, it comes up as something that more than half of american males would be charged with, every few months in their lives.
yet, whore of an 'opinionated entertainment' (in their own legalese) channels like fox and whatnot still fool the gullible with talk of 'rape'.
but i digress. really. its too much effort.
if, one is that gullible enough to be manipulated like that, like a moron, they should be let to be manipulated and exploited. its their choice.
what should not be let, however, manipulators to manipulate much more people than could be dangerous, like mass media, fox, and other mouthpiece newswhores.
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He is not being tried in the United States.
Guys like him are really the scum of the earth, and people don't realize it.
Ok he stood up to the big countries and posted some stuff, they didn't want to release... However honestly is any of this really surprising material. Civilians got Killed in war, dignitaries are not so dignified. Some politically incorrect stuff was said when it wasn't going to be in the presses. If any of this stuff shocked anyone you had to be an idiot. None of this stuff caused anyone to change except to add more safeguards to keep the stuff more private, and just gave those countries extra grief at the tax payers expense. You want a more open government great do something about it like lobbying your government (yes citizens groups can Lobby too, not just companies) Put your time and effort in those groups. Not crap like wiki-leaks which will not effect polity, and make the guy hosing it rich and (in)famous.
Yea well I need to money to support my lawsuit... Plus an additional million dollars, this sounds kinda self serving to me. But a herd of sheeple who think they just because they are left winged think they are actually not following the herd. Will pay him money, for something that is neither revolutionary nor useful.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.