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Julian Assange To Host Talk Show
An anonymous reader writes "Julian Assange has announced he will host a talk show: 'Through this series I will explore the possibilities for our future in conversations with those who are shaping it,' Assange said in his announcement late Monday. 'Are we heading towards utopia or dystopia, and how we can set our paths? This is an exciting opportunity to discuss the vision of my guests in a new style of show that examines their philosophies and struggles in a deeper and clearer way than has been done before.'"
'Through this series I will explore the possibilities for our future in conversations with those who are shaping it. Are we heading towards utopia, or dystopia and how we can set our paths? This is an exciting opportunity to discuss the vision of my guests in a new style of show that examines their philosophies and struggles in a deeper and clearer way than has been done before.'
Woah, woah, woah. Way too many words. I was like "What?" and then I was like "Huh?" and then, uh, I got a little bored.
-- "In order to have power, I must be taken seriously." -Mojo Jojo
I remember watching the interview with John Pilger some time ago, Assagne is certainly a compelling speaker.
"I bless every day that I continue to live, for every day is pure profit."
Whoever let this man onto mainstream media made a huge mistake for themselves.
For the rest of us, potential win.
I would love for him to spread his perspective and morals to a larger audience, because, from what I know of him (and being under the impression of the fallacy of his alleged rape charges), he represents a truly free, government-agnostic (am I using that right?) way forward for human kind. Our governments should not do evil unto others, and that should be apparent from it's own historical evidence.
People keep making those allegations about the selective releases, but the reality is that it's irresponsible to leak things that are completely unredacted and they didn't have the resources to process all the materials. They had even less resources after the bankers decided to not process the payments.
Perhaps people should stop spreading this sort of FUD and character assassination and focus on things that actually matter.
Ever since his arrest, he's pretty much had to. Unless he manages to keep some form of media focus on him, such that a significant number of people will care about what happens to him, he'll vanish overseas.
Publicity is life to him, at the moment. Given his life prior to the Bradley leaks, I'm pretty sure he's not a publicity hound.
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face
Anyone with half a brain knew Julie was doing this for the publicity.
You mean he leveraged a sensitive issue like honesty and transparency in order to gain a platform to talk about honesty and transparency? Scoundrel! Rapscallion!
benjamin franklin had the habit of stripping naked, throwing a stool in the middle of the corridor that ran through his mansion in the upper floors, open all windows on both sides of the mansion and sit there naked in the wind.
he would get arrested for it today.
and yet, he is one of the people who gave us what we have today.
tesla hated fat people and even fired a fat assistant. he openly scolded fat people in public. for being fat or eating too much.
i can go on and on with examples from important and beneficial figures in history, who shaped this current times with their very important contributions to society. ..................
unfortunately, as of today, speaking against governments not doing stuff against their people behind their back, exposing them, has become a greater evil to face than inquisition. with inquisition at least, all the people knew that you were stirring up something that was wrong, and approved you silently. but look at this discussion now - the persons who are braving the perils of going against the very bastards doing stuff behind our back, are being villified, by LITERATE and intelligent people. ..............
i dont care about 'jerk'. what i care about is, what he is doing. something we needed, and nobody was doing it.
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Almost as pathetic as the slavish devotion to assassinating his character on behalf of the US government.
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face
I have yet to see any reason Assange is accorded any level of respect from certain quarters of the international community.
Because he knows how to create paragraph breaks?
Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon
Assange acquired the data from someone else not from any of his own actions.
And even that was enough for the US government to try to find ways to prosecute him and bring him under their jurisdiction, and for leading American politicians to advocate murdering him. Regardless of whether we think his work was good or bad, it obviously wasn't an easy job.
He then proceeded to shake down the main stream media organizations and demanding payment for the information he possessed.
Are you referring to the clause in the confidentiality agreement where the newspaper is liable for damages to Wikileaks if they reveal certain details in the documents? That was just to protect the leak.
The first release of video footage from the helicopter attack in Iraq was "produced" to make it appear that a helicopter was just flying across the street and decided to shoot people. [...]
And yet, Wikileaks also put up the unedited version of the footage, so everyone could judge for themselves. That's more than you get from a conventional newspaper or newscast.
Ironically, Wikileaks was criticised for putting up the unedited material too, by people who claimed a "real" news outlet provided reporting, not source material, and therefore Wikileaks should not enjoy the same legal protection as a news outlet.
I'll grant you that Wikileaks made mistakes, such as realising too late how much redacting the documents needed before they were released. If they had done their work better, a lot of names of individual agents and informants could have been left out. But they did try to do it right.
Do you think the military, the government, banks, and multinational corporations have the wisdom and altruism to release material that reveals their own mistakes and wrongdoings?
If not, we need organisations like Wikileaks.
I'll grant you that Wikileaks made mistakes, such as realising too late how much redacting the documents needed before they were released. If they had done their work better, a lot of names of individual agents and informants could have been left out. But they did try to do it right.
It's important to remember that Wikileaks claims that TLA agencies were contacted in order to assist with redacting sensitive information.
They refused.
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It's important to remember that Wikileaks claims that TLA [wikipedia.org] agencies were contacted in order to assist with redacting sensitive information.
They refused.
Because the documents were illegally obtained, still classified, and not authorized for disclosure. Assange continued anyway, with predictable results. Assange doesn't care who gets hurt by his activities.
Taliban prepare to punish WikiLeaks Afghan informers
Taliban courts are preparing to try and punish any Afghan informers identified in thousands of sensitive documents due for imminent release by the WikiLeaks whistleblower website.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
Because the documents were illegally obtained by an agent outside of the Wikileaks organisation, still wrongly classified, and not authorized for disclosure because of the embarrassing nature of their contents. Assange continued anyway, with predictable results of demonstrating wide-scale cover-ups of illegal acts by Coalition forces in an ongoing theatre of war. Assange doesn't care who gets hurt by his activities, especially if they are guilty of hiding the murder of civilians from the public eye.
I put it to you that the agencies contacted new the documents were going to be released anyway, and they could have done more to protect their sources by cooperating with the requests of Wikileaks (as well as many reputable news sources who agreed to help redact the documents as best as they could). In my eyes, this is just one more example of those agencies letting innocent people die because of their inadequacies or lack of culpability to the public who they are supposed to protect.
I hope your comment is modded up, so others can have input on the matter. You do have a valid opinion, and it should be discussed.
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