Where is Julian Assange???

[belamyi]

I doubt it. I don't expect he'll be welcome in the US anytime soon though.

Joining the Polanski club.

 

[belamyi]

That's the first thing I thought when I read he was going back to Australia. I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here is staged in Australia. He's a perfect fit for any of those I'm-a-knackered-old-media-whore-everyone-look-at-me type of shitshows.

He's not a celebrity, he's too niche; freedom-fighter niche: way too intellectual even for those who care about him: remember his disappointment at the fact that nobody became a revolutionary upon the leaking he provided, because it merely provided evidence of what we all already know from the moment we become aware of the real ways of the world.
Unless his story become some sort of iconic, neflixable meme or, at least, if he left the building with a controversial bang, like Diana Spencer, he's bound to become more of a champagne academic act than a show business celebrity.

 

[unloadonme]

More analysis:

Julian Assange heads to freedom. This is how the deal was done

Australian pressure, British legal process and a US realisation it needed a deal led to Wikileaks founder's release.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Essex Boy]

He's not a celebrity, he's too niche; freedom-fighter niche

Oh, come on. Look at all those has-beens and never-quite-beens on the celeb trash knockout game show circuit. Isn't there one where they bonk each other's brains out on a tropical island? The producers will be falling over themselves to get him. He's trash TV gold (in other words, laminated plastic).

like Diana Spencer, he's bound to become more of a champagne academic act than a show business celebrity.

I'm not sure what you mean, but he ain't no academic, even if his fan club includes a few brain-boxes who have fallen under his spell like that old fool Chomsky. I don't know whether Assange has ever had to try and justify himself in the face of rigorous academic or journalistic questioning. My impression is that he would just crumble to dust if he had to explain the true goals of Wikileaks or his own moral stance. He seems to be good at not engaging with hostile criticism. His reputation for being fiercely intelligent is based purely on the fact that he's good at mathematics and knows how a computer works. The rest is merely ducking and diving, dodging and weaving, and giving the ladies the glad eye. No moral underpinning at all.

The BBC this morning is giving a moment-by-moment account of his every move, with reactions from talking heads around the world. It's exactly like the live coverage of the release of Nelson Mandela in 1990. I think they've badly misjudged it. He isn't a popular hero. Apart from his celebrity fans I don't believe anyone cares if he rots in prison or falls down a disused mine shaft.

 

[belamyi]

Oh, come on. Look at all those has-beens and never-quite-beens on the celeb trash knockout game show circuit. Isn't there one where they bonk each other's brains out on a tropical island? The producers will be falling over themselves to get him. He's trash TV gold (in other words, laminated plastic).

It's not about what they take him for, it's about what he takes himself for. Get it now?

Obama is worth NVIDIA in one of those shows, will he ever appear in any of them? Assange fought against the post powerful state in the world: that mystique is worth way more than what trah TV can, will, afford.

 

[belamyi]

I'm not sure what you mean, but he ain't no academic, even if his fan club includes a few brain-boxes who have fallen under his spell like that old fool Chomsky.

That's that: he does not need to attract big crowds, but to entertain the right ones: it's like the difference between Beyoncé and Shirley Bassey.

 

[belamyi]

I don't know whether Assange has ever had to try and justify himself in the face of rigorous academic or journalistic questioning. My impression is that he would just crumble to dust if he had to explain the true goals of Wikileaks or his own moral stance. He seems to be good at not engaging with hostile criticism. His reputation for being fiercely intelligent is based purely on the fact that he's good at mathematics and knows how a computer works. The rest is merely ducking and diving, dodging and weaving, and giving the ladies the glad eye. No moral underpinning at all.

The very fact that he got himself lost in the garden in which he threw himself, says everything about his general intelligence, beyond the technical tricks at which he may be good.

 

[pornoboy]

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[Essex Boy]

Well, the original question was "Where is Julian Assange?" and the BBC has the answer.

Posted at 8:20

Where is Assange now?​

As we've been reporting, Julian Assange is on a flight home to Australia after being freed by a US court in the Northern Mariana Islands.
His plane is now flying over eastern Australia, with less than an hour and a half to go to landing.
He is due to land in Canberra slightly later than planned, around 7:35 local time (10:34 BST).

Posted at 9:36

Plane two minutes from landing in Canberra​

As a reminder, you can watch our coverage from Canberra live by pressing play at the top of the page.

Posted at 9:41

BREAKING​

Assange lands in Canberra​

The plane carrying Julian Assange to Australia has landed in Canberra.
His family, including his wife Stella Assange and his father John Shipton, are already at the airport to meet him.

 

[rareboy]

Way too much coverage for this guy.

He is no warrior for truth.

 

[pornoboy]

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[belamyi]

Way too much coverage for this guy.

He is no warrior for truth.

Just like the US, UK, Europe... The Western World is no warrior for truth, justice, freedom, democracy and advancement of the peoples and the arts and sciences: and it is barely starting to discover that now, now that the fantasy is cracking from within.
Assange is the posterchild of what "we" purport and pretend to be but, since he is one single individual acting more or less maverick, he can be made pass for something totally different, criminal and disputable.

 

[rareboy]

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Funny though, how Assange never turned his talents toward exposing the worst regimes on earth. Like the whole Rzzzn mafiosa kleptocracy. Or The middle eastern regimes. Or African thugocracies.

Where was all his truth telling about Syria or Iran or China with their human rights abuses?

Where was all of his truth when the FSB and Putin were actively infiltrating and successfully helping to destroy inclusive democracy in the US in 2016?

 

[belamyi]

Funny though, how Assange never turned his talents toward exposing the worst regimes on earth. Like the whole Rzzzn mafiosa kleptocracy. Or The middle eastern regimes. Or African thugocracies.

Where was all his truth telling about Syria or Iran or China with their human rights abuses?

Where was all of his truth when the FSB and Putin were actively infiltrating and successfully helping to destroy inclusive democracy in the US in 2016?

You have to admit that the funniest is that, according to that view, the regimes hopelessly evil and corrupt to the core would be the ones that would need to be denounced and... reformed? (like Soviet Russia was with Putinism), and not the champions of freedom and democracy, whose purity would be in the interest of everyone to keep pure, right?
Are not we told that the duty of democracies is to denounce corruption, oppresion and injustice, because that simply won't and couldn't be done in anti-democratic regimes?

 

[rareboy]

In the end...I just look at him and Edward Snowden and the others as lazy.

 

[pornoboy]

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[belamyi]

Where was all of his truth when the FSB and Putin were actively infiltrating and successfully helping to destroy inclusive democracy in the US in 2016?

Putin had it very easy to retort to that accusation that the West, the USA, doesn't need any help from the outside to destroy inclusive democracy.
It's like arresting and accusing an open-face punk joining a riot of being the mastermind of all the havoc that other masked people, hackers and pupeteers set off and left behind.

 

[belamyi]

 

[TickTockMan]

Funny though, how Assange never turned his talents toward exposing the worst regimes on earth. Like the whole Rzzzn mafiosa kleptocracy. Or The middle eastern regimes. Or African thugocracies.

Where was all his truth telling about Syria or Iran or China with their human rights abuses?

Where was all of his truth when the FSB and Putin were actively infiltrating and successfully helping to destroy inclusive democracy in the US in 2016?

Again. Assange is the only journalist with a 100% accuracy record.

You say funny he never exposed "worst regimes", but he never went digging. He printed what was leaked to him. He is not the kind of journalist that digs or even researches. He doesn't need to. The ones doing the crimes admit their wrong doings on letterhead and other official docs

Also what the US and other Western counties did ranks right up there with the "worst regimes" because The Untied States and the others are some of the worst regimes. You just like them.

He didn't expose those you dislike not because he is on their side, but because no one gave him proof of what people already thought they were doing.

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[TickTockMan]

In the end...I just look at him and Edward Snowden and the others as lazy.

They are lazy and that is a great thing. They leak and print without any spin.


Again "liberals" loved Assange and others until they told about things democrats did.