"Free Speech, Free Press": What the World Needs to Improve
A week ago Kim Wingerei, publishing in Wikileaks-friendly media, had something interesting (this media was drowned out by AAP repostings years ago; we stopped following it due to that). He published this video with Michael West, a longtime ally of Julian Assange, and others who speak truth to power. From the description: "Adelaide’s recent ‘Power of Activism’ festival welcomed a panel directly involved in prolonged struggles to free persecuted Australian truth tellers Julian Assange, David McBride and Richard D Boyle, and support for the incarcerated former Top Gun pilot Dan Duggan. Only Assange and Boyle are free."
He (Julian Assange) is free now, but they damaged him in a lot of ways. He no longer publishes leaks. In his mid 50s (he will turn 55 on July 3rd [1, 2, 3]), he instead focuses on his family while his wife, his brother, and his father occasionally speak for him because he became more limelight-shy.
I miss the Wikileaks days. Leaks were high-impact and they came out regularly, sometimes exposing crooked "trade" agreements and enabling the general population to organise against them.
Now, with wars and crises aplenty, the public is too distracted to keep abreast of how the rich scheme (to get richer) behind the scenes, not only at everybody's expense but also against the law. We see lots of that at the EPO.
Darkness breeds corruption. █