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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.
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.
Shew, that's a relief. I think we can all rest easier now now the Jules has settled this matter for us.
I'll say.
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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
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The real "Libtards" are the Libertarians!
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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No, he panned it. He thought the movie sucked, so he tossed it into a pan, and sauteed it in butter. The movie still sucked, so he left it out for the cats to eat. They're not touching it either.
"Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it." - Charlie Br
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!
"Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it." - Charlie Br
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.
That post is offtopic? Hardly.
From the fine story post:
"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."
Both of Assange's assertions are false as shown above. Iran isn't being framed, they do have an actual active nuclear weapons program, including design and testing of implosion based warhead components. What they have yet to do, so far as is publicly known, is to actually produce a real warhead. Anyone reading the papers, as shown in the parent post, or other sources, knows this. If fact, Iran may be making a move to surge their efforts. This isn't good.
Assnage's comments are just another example of Assange's self-glorification. Nobody knows about Iran because Wikileaks hasn't release anything? Please.
That isn't much different from the claim he makes in regard to planning the Arab Spring. I doubt that is even 5% true.
. . . The first time I went to Egypt, also in 2005, I met the same kinds of people I met in Lebanon. Cosmopolitan, liberal-minded individuals who were like Arab versions of me. Egypt had nothing like Hezbollah controlling large swaths of the country and warmongering against the neighbors. No foreign army smothered the country. Instead it had a police state. The narrative there at first seemed to be: democrats against the regime. That’s what it looked like. But my experience in Lebanon prompted me to ask a question of my liberal Egyptian friends that seems not to have occurred to some of the other journalists and Western internationalists who have been there. I asked these Egyptian liberals, “how many Egyptians agree with you about politics?” The answer stopped me cold: five percent at the most. . . . --- The International Elite Bubble , by Michael J. Totten
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
1- CIA and other intelligence agencies have expressed several times that Iran does NOT have an active nuclear weapons program. No one has ever proved them to have such an active program.
2- All nuclear material in Iran is under 24hours IAEA supervision and accounted for. IAEA has never complained about considerable (more than a few grams) of material missing.
3- Iran has not enriched Uranium at military levels (i.e. more than 24%). There has been one occasion in which an slightly higher enriched trace was found but later it was resolved (it was because of calibration problems in some centrifuges).
Now you show us any PROOF you have of them producing nukes.
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?
undoing moderation.
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.
I'm afraid you've got some bad data. Allow me to refer you to this document from the IAEA which lists a number of activities connected with the design, fabrication, and testing of nuclear weapons, and developing nuclear materials. That 24 hour IAEA supervision you refer to isn't consistent with what is in the document - they are concerned about the growing number of hidden Iranian nuclear facilities. I suggest you read the Annex, from which I've extracted some relevant information. Sections C4 and forward are especially interesting. Attachment 2: Analysis of Payload, is a bit hard to explain if you want to maintain the fiction of Iran's peaceful intentions.
The short of it is that the Iranians are engaged in activities consistent with designing and testing the components for a nuclear warhead to fit on one of their existing missiles, and building secret uranium processing facilities to provide the nuclear material for the warheads. There isn't publicly available evidence to show that they have started manufacturing any real warheads, or that they as yet have enough nuclear material. They seem to be limiting themselves to putting the infrastructure in place. . . . for now.
Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and relevant provisions of Security Council resolutions in the Islamic Republic of Iran
IAEA Board of Governors
Date: 8 November 2011
ANNEX - Possible Military Dimensions to Iran’s Nuclear Programme
A. Historical Overview
Between 2003 and 2004, the Agency confirmed a number of significant failures on the part of Iran to meet its obligations under its Safeguards Agreement with respect to the reporting of nuclear material, the processing and use of undeclared nuclear material and the failure to declare facilities where the nuclear material had been received, stored and processed.2 Specifically, it was discovered that, as early as the late 1970s and early 1980s, and continuing into the 1990s and 2000s, Iran had used undeclared nuclear material for testing and experimentation in several uranium conversion, enrichment, fabrication and irradiation activities, including the separation of plutonium, at undeclared locations and facilities.3 . . .
. . . The Agency continued to seek clarification of issues with respect to the scope and nature of Iran’s nuclear programme, particularly in light of Iran’s admissions concerning its contacts with the clandestine nuclear supply network, information provided by participants in that network and information which had been provided to the Agency by a Member State. This last information, collectively referred to as the “alleged studies documentation”, which was made known to the Agency in 2005, indicated that Iran had been engaged in activities involving studies on a so-called green salt project, high explosives testing and the re-engineering of a missile re-entry vehicle to accommodate a new payload.10 All of this information, taken together, gave rise to concerns about possible military dimensions to Iran’s nuclear programme. . . .
. . . Between 2007 and 2010, Iran continued to conceal nuclear activities, by not informing the Agency in a timely manner of the decision to construct or to authorize construction of a new nuclear power plant at Darkhovin16 and a third enrichment facility near Qom (the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant).17,18 The Agency is still awaiting substantive responses from Iran to Agency requests for further information about its announcements, in 2009 and 2010 respectively, that it had decided to construct ten additional enrichment facilities (the locations for five of which had already been identified)19 and that it possessed laser enrichment technology.20 . . .
C. Nuclear Explosive Development Indicators
C.1. Programme management structure
. . . the green sal
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
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.
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.
I still don't find any reference to unsupervised "nuclear material" (i.e. what NPT is about) except those very small amounts mentioned here "late 1970s and early 1980s, and continuing into the 1990s and 2000s" which is referring to a decade ago. Currently all the fissile material is under supervision.
Conducting tests with highly explosives (non-nuclear material) and missiles is not covered by NPT agreements.
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.