Interesting story tonight on Foreign correspondent on Julian Assange. I know he's the poster boy of Shooting the breeze, but it sounds like he got a bit caught up in his own self importance.

Anyone watch it?

Only caught the last few minutes so can't really comment on the show. That said, I do think he suffers from his own self importance, as you say. Still, I'm fairly happy that he's there spilling at least some of the beans so if he's out, I hope someone else steps up.

I watched the show. Yeah he is up himself but, and it's a big but, he is showing the emperor has no clothes. Big government, big business, it's all the same. A few at the top profiting from the masses. If a few rag heads get killed in the process who cares?

When Gillard and Co basically said Assange was a traitor I was disgusted. She showed herself not to be fit for the job as PM.


When those American politicians threatened him, Gillard should have got on the phone to Beasly in Washington and told him to get it out there that and tell the yanks they can't go around threatening to kill Australians!

Mobydisc said...

Yeah he is up himself but, and it's a big but, he is showing the emperor has no clothes

Life isn't black and white.

I think he's quite a bit of both!

Assange is put out there to get your trust.

example...well if 911 was an inside job,Julian sure would have exposed it.

he does not question any part of the official fairytale,believing the passports that fell rather conveniently are stronger and more resistant to disintegration than steel and concrete!

myusernam said...

knob

+1

From the story last night it went something along the lines that the main password for the wikileaks portal was published in a book written by Guardian journalists. Once word got out a former volunteer with wikileaks tried the password out and found he could see everything. By the time Assange found out it was too late to know who had what. So he decided to make everything public.

It did not sound like he intended to publish information that could endanger someone's life as he had not done this before. Are there any examples where people named have suffered from retaliation besides people like Tony Blair sucking up to pigs like Assad and Ghadaffi?

Really? That's completely bizarre. Got any links to the news article (or whatever)?

I think I've just downgraded my assessment of Assange to complete knob!

SomeOtherGuy said...

Really? That's completely bizarre. Got any links to the news article (or whatever)?

I think I've just downgraded my assessment of Assange to complete knob!

www.spiegel.de/international/world/leak-at-wikileaks-a-dispatch-disaster-in-six-acts-a-783778.html

Basically Assange copied the encrypted,uneditted,compressed file to the main ftp server then gave the Guardian the password and location.
Assange forgot to remove the file after the Guardian obtained. Didn't change the password either.
File was accidentally made public when they released 'everything' via peer sharing because the Wikileaks webserver was under attack.
The Guardian reporter published the password in his book because he thought the password would have changed or the files removed in the intervening months.


Complete f*ck up.

GalahOnTheBay said...

Life isn't black and white.

I think he's quite a bit of both!

I've been thinking about this since you said it.

For me it is black and white. I was thinking about heros I know. I couldn't think of attaching the word knob to any of them.

Steve Jobs - Hero
Fred Hollows - Hero
Moira Kelly - Hero


Ricky Nixon
Corry Worthington
Julian Assange
Derryn Hinch
Andrew Bolt