~ From a plea deal to a 2am prison call: how Julian Assange finally gained freedom
~ Young Voltaire 1694-1778
Crikey! There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.
Am hearing Kevin Rudd deserves a lot of kudos re the Assange outcome. Threw his frenetic energy into it and knew exactly which buttons to push and who to talk to State side.
Phillip Adams is happy with the timing …
Free Julian Assange - at at 26 June fund raised more than half raised …£351k
Being of convict stock I instinctively admire people who have the courage of their convictions. But extraditing Assange to be incarcerated in a USA supermax sends a message that no journo or publisher is safe anywhere in the world. Join us in urging Oz govt to bring #Assange home
~ Krim de la Krim KL 22 June 2024 AD and on 26 June 2024
Fascinating Julian Assange came for lunch. Served wikileaks and potato soup. Can tell u no more about the menu as I can't reveal my sauces.
~ KL 11 April 2011 AD
The final moments of the Assange saga had been tightly choreographed. A social media-friendly video of Assange’s release into the hands of his British lawyer, Gareth Pierce, at Stansted was released by WikiLeaks along with a crowdfunding appeal to cover the $520,000 (£410,000/$A783,000) cost of the Bombardier Global 6000 jet that took him to Saipan. He had not been permitted to fly commercially.
From a plea deal to a 2am prison call: how Julian Assange finally gained freedom
Julian Assange boards flight at London Stansted Airport at 5PM (BST) Monday June 24th
Julian calling into Sydney from Stansted airport last night (his day time).
A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it's accepted by a majority.
~ Booker T. Washington
JULIAN ASSANGE IS FREE Julian Assange is free. He left Belmarsh maximum security prison on the morning of 24 June, after having spent 1901 days there. He was granted bail by the High Court in London and was released at Stansted airport during the afternoon, where he boarded a plane and departed the UK. This is the result of a global campaign that spanned grass-roots organisers, press freedom campaigners, legislators and leaders from across the political spectrum, all the way to the United Nations. This created the space for a long period of negotiations with the US Department of Justice, leading to a deal that has not yet been formally finalised. We will provide more information as soon as possible. After more than five years in a 2x3 metre cell, isolated 23 hours a day, he will soon reunite with his wife Stella Assange, and their children, who have only known their father from behind bars. WikiLeaks published groundbreaking stories of government corruption and human rights abuses, holding the powerful accountable for their actions. As editor-in-chief, Julian paid severely for these principles, and for the people's right to know. As he returns to Australia, we thank all who stood by us, fought for us, and remained utterly committed in the fight for his freedom. Julian's freedom is our freedom.
Julian Assange boards flight at London Stansted Airport at 5PM (BST) Monday June 24th. This is for everyone who worked for his freedom: thank you.
Julian Assange’s fiancée, Stella Moris, on their secret family
Julian Assange’s fiancée, Stella Moris, on their secret family The WikiLeaks founder secretly fathered two children while holed up at the Ecuadorian embassy. Now he is in prison fighting extradition to the US and the hearing that will decide his fate resumes on Monday. His fiancée tells Kirsty Lang their extraordinary love story
"What are the differences between Mark Zuckerberg and me? I give private information on corporations to you for free, and I'm a villain. Zuckerberg gives your private information to corporations for money and he’s Man of the Year." ~ Julian Assange
We're living in a strange, complex epoch.
As Hamlet says, our 'time is out of joint.' Just think. We're reaching for the moon and yet it's increasingly hard for us to reach ourselves; we're able to split the atom, but unable to prevent the splitting of our personality; we build superb communications between the continents, and yet communication between Man and Man is increasingly difficult.
In other words, our life has lost a sort of higher axis, and we are irresistibly falling apart, more and more profoundly alienated from the world, from others, from ourselves.
Like Sisyphus, we roll the boulder of our life up the hill of its illusory meaning, only for it to roll down again into the valley of its own absurdity.
Never before has Man lived projected so near to the very brink of the insoluble conflict between the subjective will of his moral self and the objective possibility of its ethical realization.
Manipulated, automatized, made into a fetish, Man loses the experience of his own totality; horrified, he stares as a stranger at himself, unable not to be what he is not, nor to be what he is.
Freeeeeedom is smelling the sea and watching creatures great and small - just running …
