WikiLeaks Assange cashing in big time.

Ya making money means you're fake :confused:

“Julian Assange has signed book deals worth more than £1m in the US and UK, to allow the WikiLeaks founder to cover his legal fees and maintain the whistleblowing site.”
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Maybe more people will learn about wikileaks from reading the book... Hardly anybody out there really knows...

I run into people everyday who never heard of it.
 
Profit is the value that society assigns to a product. Obviously Assange's product has great value, therefore he should make a profit.
 
dannno said:
Ya making money means you're fake :confused:
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I guess so, this is the 5th time I've heard someone say something about it since that was revealed. It's amazing how people are so easily distracted from what fucking matters nowadays..."Hey look, something shiny":rolleyes:
 
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“I don’t want to write this book, but I have to,” he told the Sunday Times. “I have already spent £200,000 for legal costs and I need to defend myself and to keep WikiLeaks afloat.”

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On the other hand, Assange does deserve the benefit of the doubt: after all the banks and merchant service operators have made public funding for his company next to impossible.

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That said, there is nothing the big banks would like than to have the broader population perceive Assange as a sell out and no longer give credence to any future disclosures.
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Sure, he's made some deals with Israel over what information he has released so far, but if he hadn't done that he probably wouldn't have gotten much of anything out.

And yes, some of the leaked information has likely come straight from the CIA... that doesn't mean that Assange is working for them or that he's a bad person.
 
Wikileaks just intercepted a transmission over the internets:

AGAR: "AGAR TO BASE... AGAR TO BASE.. COME IN, OVER.."

HQ: "HQ HERE... GO AHEAD AGAR."

AGAR: "DISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE RON PAUL PEOPLE UNSUCCESSFUL. I AM RETURNING TO BASE."

HQ: "WE READ YOU..SCRUB THE MISSION"
 
dannno said:
Sure, he's made some deals with Israel over what information he has released so far, but if he hadn't done that he probably wouldn't have gotten much of anything out.

And yes, some of the leaked information has likely come straight from the CIA... that doesn't mean that Assange is working for them or that he's a bad person.
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Any proof of that? There's only been like 2000 cables released so far, and I thought I read an interview recently where he said that wasn't true at all, they just haven't got to them yet.:confused:
 
first of all the article which alleged assange striking a deal with israel was all speculations and taking quotes out of context in a way i wouldn't have done even in my high school, horrible, horrible english years. please check your sources beyond teenager reading material

dannno said:
Sure, he's made some deals with Israel over what information he has released so far, but if he hadn't done that he probably wouldn't have gotten much of anything out.

And yes, some of the leaked information has likely come straight from the CIA... that doesn't mean that Assange is working for them or that he's a bad person.
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ugh, danno, please.

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2010/12/assange-on-supposed-manipulation-by.html

"compromised" assange:

"As for Mossad, in the release of "Cablegate" material, there is no one spared. If you look closely, what has happened is that the New York Times as a media organisation has to be quite careful not to criticise Israel too much. So, if you look at the coverage in English that is coming out you will see little that is critical of Israeli behaviour and a lot critical of Iran, for example. That is not a true reflection of the "Cablegate" material. There is information in there that is critical of most countries - certainly including Israel.

There is a bias towards material that is critical of Iran because the information comes from US embassies and US diplomats reporting back to Washington. So, it does follow Washington's agenda in terms of what US diplomats and political officers are looking to report and what they do report back to Washington."

end quote

i guess the only thing "compromised" assange is guilty of is not deeming everything-conspiracists worthy of active responses.. but guess what, when you confront him up front, he does give a proper answer

he is indeed short however of doing the work for you naysayers of going through the files in that short response. i guess he is just as guilty of laziness as you conspiracists

now the next step in this debate is for you guys out there (you know who you are) to pull a "yOu liE!~~" moment like they did on obama

good luck with that
 
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coastie said:
I guess so, this is the 5th time I've heard someone say something about it since that was revealed. It's amazing how people are so easily distracted from what fucking matters nowadays..."Hey look, something shiny":rolleyes:
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so true
 
jtstellar said:
first of all the article which alleged assange striking a deal with israel was all speculations and taking quotes out of context in a way i wouldn't have done even in my high school, horrible, horrible english years. please check your sources beyond teenager reading material



ugh, danno, please.

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2010/12/assange-on-supposed-manipulation-by.html

"compromised" assange:

"As for Mossad, in the release of "Cablegate" material, there is no one spared. If you look closely, what has happened is that the New York Times as a media organisation has to be quite careful not to criticise Israel too much. So, if you look at the coverage in English that is coming out you will see little that is critical of Israeli behaviour and a lot critical of Iran, for example. That is not a true reflection of the "Cablegate" material. There is information in there that is critical of most countries - certainly including Israel.

There is a bias towards material that is critical of Iran because the information comes from US embassies and US diplomats reporting back to Washington. So, it does follow Washington's agenda in terms of what US diplomats and political officers are looking to report and what they do report back to Washington."

end quote

i guess the only thing "compromised" assange is guilty of is not deeming everything-conspiracists worthy of active responses.. but guess what, when you confront him up front, he does give a proper answer

he is indeed short however of doing the work for you naysayers of going through the files in that short response. i guess he is just as guilty of laziness as you conspiracists

now the next step in this debate is for you guys out there (you know who you are) to pull a "yOu liE!~~" moment like they did on obama

good luck with that
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Well as AJ has said, he hasn't released anything truly game changing, it's mostly stuff we already know. We'll see how all this fairs out, maybe he will release some really bad stuff about Israel, or maybe it will be scrubbed, who knows.

I still don't doubt the CIA has been the one releasing a lot of the material, not all of it, just some material to discredit or drown out the other stuff.

I've never doubted that Assange or wikileaks were not loyal to their anti-establishment roots, I can just see how they may be manipulated by the establishment, you know they're trying.
 
dannno said:
Well as AJ has said, he hasn't released anything truly game changing, it's mostly stuff we already know. We'll see how all this fairs out, maybe he will release some really bad stuff about Israel, or maybe it will be scrubbed, who knows.

I still don't doubt the CIA has been the one releasing a lot of the material, not all of it, just some material to discredit or drown out the other stuff.

I've never doubted that Assange or wikileaks were not loyal to their anti-establishment roots, I can just see how they may be manipulated by the establishment, you know they're trying.
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did aj read out of the new york times/guardian or did he actually get the raw cables and sorted everything out

the point of my quote on assange was this: assange: "if you look at the coverage in English that is coming out you will see little that is critical of Israeli behaviour and a lot critical of Iran, for example. That is not a true reflection of the "Cablegate" material. There is information in there that is critical of most countries - certainly including Israel."

so again, did aj read out of the english newspaper, or did he read the raw data. seems like an obvious answer to me, but i will keep this question hanging anyway.
 
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dannno said:
Well as AJ has said, he hasn't released anything truly game changing, it's mostly stuff we already know. We'll see how all this fairs out, maybe he will release some really bad stuff about Israel, or maybe it will be scrubbed, who knows.

I still don't doubt the CIA has been the one releasing a lot of the material, not all of it, just some material to discredit or drown out the other stuff.

I've never doubted that Assange or wikileaks were not loyal to their anti-establishment roots, I can just see how they may be manipulated by the establishment, you know they're trying.
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The army follows me around, to and from work... a lot of days... sometimes... well not really.



There they are behind me. :)
 
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Why is some form of logic not a mandatory course to take in grade school and high school?
 
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You realize, surely, that our own Ron Paul also profits from the books he writes and various other products he sells, yes? In fact, one could reasonably say he "cashes in big time" (although he puts much of the money into the Campaign for Liberty and like-minded organizations). Does this make our patron and the namesake of this site itself a "fake"?
 
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