WikiLeaks is an international 'new media' non-profit organization that publishes classified documents, insider data, and otherwise unavailable information from anonymous news sources and leaks. Assange is one of WikiLeaks' founders and a prominent hacker who is currently under investigation for sexual misconduct as well as under person attack by U.S and European governments and their elite managers.
WikiLeaks has also released statements indicating its next info-disclosure will include "sensitive" documents from the internal communications of the world's leading banks and financial corporations. Rumor has it that these leaked documents will have a significant impact on the blatantly corrupt global banking system.
Below is a new documentary (released just one week ago and brought to my attention by professor Max Forte at Zero Anthropology) assessing the impact and history of WikiLeaks and the recent wave of info-activism:
Assange was released from jail on bail today in England and has vowed to continue his work until jackals murder him or he is extradited to the United States to face legal action and brutal imprisonment. Power-brokers are no doubt scrambling to see who gets to him first. Long may he run.
"The west has fiscalised its basic power relationships through a web of contracts, loans, shareholdings, bank holdings and so on. In such an environment it is easy for speech to be "free" because a change in political will rarely leads to any change in these basic instruments. Western speech, as something that rarely has any effect on power, is, like badgers and birds, free. In states like China, there is pervasive censorship, because speech still has power and power is scared of it. We should always look at censorship as an economic signal that reveals the potential power of speech in that jurisdiction. The attacks against us by the US point to a great hope, speech powerful enough to break the fiscal blockade." - Julian Assange (2010) [source]
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Thank you for this post. This documentary has enhanced my perspective and provided additional information for me to process. I welcome the publication of secret information that should never have been secret. I worry about the potential evolution of an idealist into a megalomaniac. I am encouraged that there are numerous dedicated individuals willing to pursue exposing the truth. I hope that average people, like me, throughout the world will actually pay attention and make their views known.
Hey Sharon, thanks for dropping me a note (I haven't heard from you in a while :-).
I thought it was a fantastic documentary as well. Gives a great overview including recent events.
I think Assange as a person is much less important than what it is WikiLeaks is doing. The expose of corruption, lies and elite posturing as power-control will only help our civilization to become better than we are now - and perhaps better than we think we can be.
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