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Julian Assange Pans WikiLeaks Movie
As reported by news.com.au, Julian Assange has seen leaked copies of the script of an upcoming film depicting WikiLeaks, and blasts it as inaccurate propaganda. He says, among other things, "They tried to frame Iran as having an active nuclear weapons program. Then they try to frame WikiLeaks as the reason why that's not known to the public now." Says the article: "Assange declined to say where he got the script, although he hinted that he had been supplied with several copies of it over time. He also declined to say whether the script would be posted to the WikiLeaks website, saying only that "we are examining options closely.'"
upcoming film depicting wikileaks
I have bad news, but films are designed to sell advertising, tickets, and concessions food in that order. you dont achieve all these things by making an accurate depiction of a subject matter, you sensationalize it. among other things patently false in several other films:
1. Abraham lincoln, neither vampire hunter nor martial arts expert
2. transformers: cars do not in fact transform into killer robots.
3. Jurrasic park: while UNIX is in fact quite useful in the administration of automated SCADA systems, no such systems have been constructed to date for the express purpose of housing genetically cloned dinosaurs, which also do not exist.
4. zero dark thirty: "terror" is in fact not something a nation can declare war on or successfully claimed to have emerged the victor from.
Good people go to bed earlier.
So there's probably a tie-in to the US government. I'm just not certain who is calling the shots.
Have gnu, will travel.
A film based on the actual events surrounding Wikileaks could have been compelling material. They could touch on Manning's plight in jail, on the embassy drama, the fights within the organization, etc. By choosing to fabricate key elements of the plot to push an agenda that is anti-wikileaks and pro war with Iran, Dreamworks is passing up a massive opportunity as a studio, and opening themselves up to a PR nightmare.
he probably 'plans' a movie
They tried to frame Iran as having an active nuclear weapons program
Apparently Assange sat down with Ayatollah Khamenei and got his assurances that Iran is not seeking a nuclear weapon? Or perhaps he snuck in and examined their facilities? Shew, that's a relief. I think we can all rest easier now now the Jules has settled this matter for us.
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Why on earth wouldn't Iran have a nuclear weapons program? The accepted wisdom now is that a nation with nuclear weapons can't be invaded by another nation. The strategic advantage of having them is massive. Even assuming they don't have ambitions of attacking Israel or anyone else, the impact on how they have to be treated in foreign relations is huge.
Now, I don't know if they have an EFFECTIVE nuclear weapons program. Maybe due to embargoes they're just banging rocks together like Saddam was. But it seems implausible that they don't have some resources devoted to developing nuclear weapons.
I am not a conspiracy guy but it has been my experience that movie studios, record companies and governments are not that fond of openly shared information.
Now that all movie theatres are showing films digital only, can't he just get his annonymous friends to just hack the projector and show whatever he wants people to see.
This appears to be a propoganda film. So is Zero Dark Thirty.
IANAL. When companies create movies about people who are alive, and events that are still being ajudicated, they are interfering with due process. Who knows what fallacy will be used against Julian Assange as a result.
Note that Kevin Mitnick was imprisoned in solitary confinement after a judge was convinced that he could just whistle into a phone and launch nulcear weapons. The idea that was pitched to the judge was based on the movie "War Games".
Film at 11. And now, sports.
Do not troll, you ignorant buffoon.
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7 times the UN security council has unanimously voted that they have evidence that Iran is enriching uranium for weapons and ordered them to stop. If they're being framed, they're being framed in such a way that every single member of the security council has it confirmed by their own intelligence agencies.
And yet Assange individually knows better than all of these intelligence agencies. If he had actual proof of that, that would be a fantastic thing to leak. I don't believe he does.
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I wouldn't cooperate either. Never cooperate in any criminal investigation in which you might be a subject. Never, never, never. You have the right to be silent - USE IT IDIOT!!!
Investigators never ask an innocent question. A totally innocuous question, such as, "Isn't that a beautiful child?" answered affirmatively, will be used to paint you as a pedo. Never cooperate!
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The Soviet bureaucrats learned hard way that keeping such phenomenons as Andrei Sakharov, Anatoly Sharansky, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in prison is like trying to kill a mockingbird.
The US and UK bureaucrats should cut losses, learn lessons and leave Julian and Bradley alone. Let them go wherever they wish while still there is time. They are just too big to be kept down like this. Not good to attract attention to them any longer.
It the USA and UK go berserk the whole world will turn into a zoo.
He's just holding out for Brad Pitt to be cast as the role of Julian. Then I bet he'll change his tune. The final cut of the movie will be 5 minutes of explosions followed by 90 minutes of Brad Pitt crashing on a couch in an embassy somewhere.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
What a waste of life
A film based on the actual events surrounding Wikileaks could have been compelling material.
And the unedited helicopter gunship video that brought wikileaks mainstream attention would have been compelling material too. Unfortunately wikileaks saw an opportunity to get the press attention that they desired and to further the political agenda that they desired. So they edited out the scenes where guys could be seen holding weapons. The journalists walking around with armed insurgents was an inconvenient truth for their narrative. An inaccurate portrayal of wikileaks is fitting since they were are all about inaccurate portrayal as well. All the leaks that fit their agenda and politics, none that do not.
The idea to anonymously leak info to the press is a good idea. Wikileaks/Assange was the wrong group/person to lead that effort. They/he have set back an otherwise good idea.
War is coming with Iran. Just as Hitler wrote 'Mein Kampf' so the world could not pretend to be ignorant of his intentions if he gained great power, the zionist madmen of America wrote "Project for a New American Century" (PNAC). Here we learnt that the madmen would create a "New Pearl Harbour", and use it as an excuse for a rolling program of wars in the Middle east, exterminating each enemy of Israel and Saudi Arabia in turn.
Today, with live in the period of PNAC's endless 'war on terrorism'- which actually translates to endless American aggressive wars- defined previously at the Nuremberg war-crimes trials post WW2 as the "ultimate Crime against Humanity". America, of course, puts itself above all Human courts, just like Nazi Germany did before. All America has to fear is its own people.
This being so, the American people must be both disarmed (politically and physically), and subject daily to ever more pro-war propaganda.
Slashdot is part of this. The paid zionist shills are given endless pools of moderation points to promote pro-Israel, pro-Saudi, and pro-war positions. Ordinary Americans that post here naturally tend to have the opposite position, but they are usually swamped and intimidated by the continuous pro-war, pro-military, pro-Obama rhetoric.
The Wikileaks situation is depressing. Wikileaks was used in a security service operation run by the British (but with massive American participation) to create the so-called 'Arab Spring', where the British created 'Muslim Brotherhood' (actually more masonic than Islamic) would take over control is as many nations as possible, providing for governments in the pockets of the West that oversaw extremist forms of Islam for the common people.
This is the Saudi model, where American playboy stooges rule Saudi, and these playboy stooges encourage extreme religious nutters to control the lives of the ordinary citizens.
Assange was too egotistical to realise he was being 'played'. He was far too stupid to understand that the so-called Bradley leak was actually an intelligence operation to ensure Wikileaks had the information required. When intelligence services release propaganda, they need the message to be seen as arriving from a 'trusted' source.
There is a deeper game being played. While Israel loving racist filth simply want any nation of Muslims to be destroyed, the zionist racists themselves are being used as Assange was used. Iran is being set up for the world's first nuclear war. And this war is designed to trigger another World War, where the 'enemy' shifts from Muslims to the Russians and Chinese. Or, to put it more correctly, the enemy shifts from the Muslims to America itself.
If any American was really concerned about nuclear weapons in the hands of racists ruling rogue states, they'd immediately focus on Israel. This sickening theocracy calls its zioinist population the 'master race' (ring any bells). This sickening theocracy has actively dedicated its industry to producing thousands of nuclear warheads, and the missile technology needed to strike any Human population centre. This sickening theocracy has never ceased waging genocidal wars on its mostly unarmed neighbours, since Jewish terrorists flooded into Palestine after WW2, and ethnically cleansed the existing population.
This sickening theocracy was the number one supporter of the depraved APARTHEID regimes of South Africa. So evil is Israel, it actually provided biological weapons to the racist regime of Rhodesia, and gave nuclear weapons to the racist regime of South Africa, both with the specific intent of maintaining "White Rule", even if that meant the genocide of tens of millions of black Africans. Israel has NEVER hidden its racist evil.
When one decent Israeli attempted to warn the planet about Israel's depraved nuclear weapons program, zionist terrorists, with the full assistance of the UK, US, French and German governments, kidnapped this man from Europe, and took him back for torture and years of solitary confinement in an Israel
While this is a US centric video, I recommend it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
On one flight I had the misfortune to watch the atrocious remake of The Italian Job. Paramount spent a significant amount of that film bashing Napster and Shawn Fanning.
Even arguing whether torture was effective or not is a sign that US propaganda in this regard did very well. Now supported by Hollywood they seem to beat Goebbels to the punch. Torturing people is forbidden by Geneva convetions and international law, period. Anyone using torture under any pretext should be prosecuted, period. This ban has its reason: if you allow your government to torture some "brown people" your govt claims being dangerous, a precedent is being set and very soon the very same government will torture just about anyone they don't like (including their own citizens).
Stop talking about effectiveness of torturing people - your government propaganda division can't be happier hearing this.
It was to expected, we haven't heard from the cellar-dweller for a few weeks.
Got to keep the pot boiling!!!
(capatcha - puberty. If only Assange hadn't passed through it, he wouldn't have had any problems with Swedish women...)
Timothy, I'm shocked, and I know samzenpus will already be composing a blistering email rebuke.
There were so many ways to shoehorn in far more pro-Australia hype in the summary, yet that's the best you could do?
For shame.
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So, he gets a leak about his site that's made of leaked material, but won't post the script of the movie about it FRONT PAGE as soon as received? What an hypocritical imbecile.
Making laws based on opinions that stem up from false informations leads to witch hunts.
Strange i did not see in any of the comments a link to the actual video in which he talks about this mass propaganda machine you all so much love to follow, called Hollywood.
Here it is .... very educational
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vQNWYnQjUE
This will cost me karma but when will his fanbois finally understand his ego knows no bounds.
He fell out with with Daniel Domscheit-Berg and other co-founders of Wikileaks.
He fell out with his Alan Smithee his autobiographer.
He fell out with the Guardian Newspaper.
And now he's fallen out with Dreamworks.