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Thu Aug 22, 2013, 05:24 AM
ProSense (116,464 posts)
"WikiLeaks has problems with 'democratic processes': Dr Cannold"
WikiLeaks triggered an angry response last weekend, particularly from the Greens, when it chose to give its first preferences to far-right wing candidates and parties in New South Wales, including the Australia First Party which is headed by a convicted criminal and former neo-Nazi.
WikiLeaks has problems with 'democratic processes': Dr Cannold
She says internal wrangling over the preference decisions "exposed problems with the capacity of the party to sustain its democratic processes".
"By staying in this role I am implicitly vouching for the worthiness of this party to receive the votes of the Australian people," she said in the statement.
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Assange blames Manning, Snowden for WikiLeaks Party chaos
SYDNEY Julian Assange on Thursday took responsibility for the resignation of a key candidate from his WikiLeaks Party running in Australian elections, blaming his focus on Edward Snowden and Bradley Manning.
The fledgling party is in crisis after its number two candidate for the Australian Senate behind Assange, ethicist Leslie Cannold, said she was disillusioned with its lack of transparency and accountability and quit Wednesday.
She would have likely taken the WikiLeaks founder's place in the upper house in the event the party was successful in the September 7 polls and Assange was unable to return to Australia, his home country.
Other members of the party, which has vowe d to closely scrutinise any government in power, have also walked away, including four of its 11 governing National Council representatives.
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Assange Says Rand Paul Is The Only Hope For America
The leak was an attempt to bolster the libertarian brand.
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Response to ProSense (Original post)
Thu Aug 22, 2013, 05:31 AM
Hekate (62,206 posts)
1. kick
Response to Hekate (Reply #1)
Thu Aug 22, 2013, 01:26 PM
freshwest (53,661 posts)
32. I want some of what Assange is drinking:
"I made a decision two months ago to spend a lot of my time on dealing with the Edward Snowden asylum situation and trying to save the life of a young man (Bradley Manning)," he told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
He used and discarded Manning, typical of this entire cabal, they use and discard people. So in what alternative universe did he help Manning?
Did he send information to the defense team? Make legal motions? Send money?
What an ego!
Response to freshwest (Reply #32)
Thu Aug 22, 2013, 06:06 PM
struggle4progress (108,467 posts)
36. It is only because of Assange that we know Manning's 35-year sentence is a strategic victory!
Let's give credit where credit is due!
Response to struggle4progress (Reply #36)
Thu Aug 22, 2013, 06:44 PM
freshwest (53,661 posts)
37. Strategic victory for Assange: $$$. Whistleblowers, including Anonymous: ZERO. What a con job.
Anonymous appalled by WikiLeaks
By Natasha Lennard - Oct 12, 2012
"...We have been worried about the direction WikiLeaks is going for sometime now. In the past year the focus has moved away from actual leaks and the fight for freedom of information and concentrated more and more on Julian Assange and a rabid scrounging for money," the hackers noted.
In an accompanying (and similar) statement posted online, Anonymous added, "WikiLeaks is not or should not be about Julian Assange alone." The hackers explained that despite a steadfast belief that the controversial WikiLeaks founder should not be extradited to the United States, they have grown weary of the attention paid to Assange:
"The idea behind WikiLeaks was to provide the public with information that would otherwise being kept secret by industries and governments. Information we strongly believe the public has a right to know. But this has been pushed more and more into the background, instead we only hear about Julian Assange, like he had dinner last night with Lady Gaga. Thats great for him but not much of our interest. We are more interested in transparent governments and bringing out documents and information they want to hide from the public."
The hackers also expressed anger that Anonymous members have faced repression and jail time for materials they supplied to WikiLeaks, while "to this day, not ONE single WikiLeaks staff are charged or incarcerated." They noted that hacktivist Jeremy Hammond could face 20 years in prison for allegedly supplying the Stratfor files the very documents WikiLeaks put behind a pay wall...
Response to freshwest (Reply #37)
Thu Aug 22, 2013, 09:49 PM
Number23 (24,544 posts)
46. And Anonymous becomes YET ANOTHER group to fall off the Assange wagon
His Senate run will keep him in the papers which I guess is the most important thing. To him.
Response to Number23 (Reply #46)
Thu Aug 22, 2013, 10:09 PM
freshwest (53,661 posts)
48. Money is coming in with each interview, with every web appeal for donations, etc. And sorry that..
I haven't gotten back with you on those figures. If s4p kept files, he might know. It was from one of his links when we were discussing this last winter. About the same time he posted about the Srratfor files and the dustup bertween Assange and his financial partners, not those who helped after the Swedish affair, but put Wikileaks together. High rollers, all of them.
Response to freshwest (Reply #32)
Thu Aug 22, 2013, 07:10 PM
Hekate (62,206 posts)
39. That's the thing that bothers me the most about the means used
Apparently, they use and discard people. Both Manning and Snowden are young and I wager idealistic. My main emotion regarding them is sorrow -- they are young enough to be my sons, or in Manning's case, my grandson.
I hate what is happening to my country, and I want the truth. But if deep down inside themselves Assange and Greenwald think its necessary to break eggs to make an omelet, they can go to hell.
About my country and its intelligence/spy agencies -- I want the truth. "Transparency" we won't get, not in this lifetime, but the current situation is not good and needs to change. We deserve more truth than we've been getting.
I loved the way Kurt Eichenwald framed the NSA scandal on MSNBC today. If people see something and scream "It's a Monster!!1!" the internet and the media explode. Someone else comes along and says, "That's not a monster, it's a bear," but that doesn't gain any traction. They take a closer look and say, "It's a bear in a cage," but that observation is a complete non-story. The internet continues to explode with "It's a Monster!"
After the interview I decided to look up Eichenwald's June 14 article in Vanity Fair: PRISM Isnt Data Mining and Other Falsehoods in the N.S.A. Scandal
Should make for interesting reading.
Response to Hekate (Reply #39)
Thu Aug 22, 2013, 08:02 PM
freshwest (53,661 posts)
41. Agreed and will go to the link. Thanks for more information.
Response to Hekate (Reply #39)
Thu Aug 22, 2013, 09:01 PM
Number23 (24,544 posts)
42. That Vanity Fair piece is interesting
Vanity Fair, the New Yorker and other publications have been doing their damndest to try to even out the left wing hysteria over this issue.
Response to Hekate (Reply #39)
Fri Aug 23, 2013, 02:26 AM
Cha (257,350 posts)
51. Thanks for that analogy of the "monster/and only a bear",
from Kurt Eichenwald, Hekate.
It's good to know there's someone on tv who isn't hyperventillating about it.
Response to ProSense (Original post)
Thu Aug 22, 2013, 05:40 AM
randome (34,845 posts)
2. Too many in this country have a similar disdain for Democratic processes.
Democracy is messy and complicated. It's easier to cheer on the anarchists.
"...its lack of transparency and accountability..." Amateurs.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]I'm always right. When I'm wrong I admit it.
So then I'm right about being wrong.[/center][/font][hr]
Response to ProSense (Original post)
Thu Aug 22, 2013, 05:44 AM
Recursion (56,230 posts)
3. Self-directed movements are better at criticising than creating, in general
Time and time again we see this.
Response to Recursion (Reply #3)
Thu Aug 22, 2013, 06:01 AM
Cryptoad (7,893 posts)
4. Same reasons
the Tea Party has Failed.
Response to ProSense (Original post)
Thu Aug 22, 2013, 06:03 AM
East Coast Pirate (775 posts)
5. Is he planning to run for office in the U.S.?
Response to ProSense (Original post)
Thu Aug 22, 2013, 06:21 AM
Swagman (1,934 posts)
6. this was over extremely complicated "preference" deals
in the Sept 7 General election in Australia and I reckon Julian is being unfairly blamed.
I expect he will still be elected to the Australian Senate but will he be able to take his seat ?
Response to ProSense (Original post)
Thu Aug 22, 2013, 06:23 AM
uponit7771 (69,580 posts)
7. Assange Says Rand Paul Is The Only Hope For America
Response to uponit7771 (Reply #7)
Thu Aug 22, 2013, 06:25 AM
Skidmore (37,364 posts)
8. I think Assange fits the libertarian label and the
notion that no laws need apply, especially to him.
Response to Skidmore (Reply #8)
Thu Aug 22, 2013, 06:33 AM
Swagman (1,934 posts)
10. rubbish
Response to uponit7771 (Reply #7)
Thu Aug 22, 2013, 06:37 AM
Swagman (1,934 posts)
11. he explained his views and he may be right ..it's not as
simple as your statement.
Response to ProSense (Original post)
Thu Aug 22, 2013, 06:33 AM
hobbit709 (41,694 posts)
9. And some people seem to have a problem with monomania.
Response to ProSense (Original post)
Thu Aug 22, 2013, 07:20 AM
struggle4progress (108,467 posts)
12. Wikileaks Party Lurches .. Right: Preferences Fascists, Mens-righters and Gun-lovers above .. Greens
August 18, 2013 · by davidjackmanson
Just two days after Wikileaks Party Senate candidate for Victoria, Julian Assange, raised eyebrows by praising US anti-abortion politicians Ron Paul and Senator Rand Paul, the Wikileaks Party revealed a new attempt to appeal to the far Right. In official election tickets lodged with the Australian Electoral Commission, they have said they want the fascist Australia First Party, the pro-shooting-in-National-Parks Shooters and Fishers Party , and the mens rights activist Non-Custodial Parents Party to win a seat instead of the Australian Greens. In New South Wales, if you take the easy option and just tick the Wikileaks Party box in the Senate, and if they dont win, your vote will go to those three right-wing parties before it goes to the Greens ...
The Wikileaks Party has given no more details about this supposed error. However rumours about this preferencing arrangement have been circulating since at least Sunday August 11, when Greens activist and councillor Max Phillips says he was told by a Wikileaks Party member at the Marrickville Markets that the Right-wing preferences were going to happen because the Greens are our competition ...
This seems certain to prevent the Wikileaks Party from winning a seat. While their preferences in Victoria arent offensive to potential left-wing supporters, that detail is likely to not matter to people angry about the NSW decision, and its Victoria where Assange is running ...
Assange was never likely to win a seat anyway, even if the Wikileaks Party hadnt angered people today with their preferences. But now their chance of getting anyone who thinks of themselves as Left to co-operate with their organisation long term is zero. (If Assange is serious about seeing the libertarian right-wing as the wave of the future, perhaps they dont care). But where are they going to get volunteers to come to long, boring meetings on winter nights? ...
Response to struggle4progress (Reply #12)
Thu Aug 22, 2013, 01:58 PM
freshwest (53,661 posts)
33. So many contradictions, or are they?
All about the 4th, but not for women having any.
All about peace, but goes with the 2nd solution crowd.
All about saving the planet, but against the Greens, FFS!
Oh, well, you know what they say about making sausage. And it's just too bad if you happen to be on the list of ingredients instead of the guys doing the eating.
And the Rand Paul thing?
How many rights is that guy going to take from us lesser folk to get the grifter version of freedom and liberty, and not a peep about that?
Let's see, personhood bills, national RTL laws, no labor standards, no regulating mines or protecting food, water, air, stuff like that, no birth control and no EPA, etc.
Get rid of and sell off public assets, as in no public parks, hospitals, schools or public healthcare, food or housing assistance, no welfare (that includes Social Security), services like fire departments and no voting rights, laws against discrimination, etc.
And shut down the whole government, Social Security payments, Medicare and Medicaid, if Rand can't repeal Obamacare. Because it's just the right thing to do, you know. The Anglosphere and Assange have had that UHC but it's against freedom and liberty!
In exchange for destroying the USA government, we will get a government such they endorsed, the Christian Right in Australia. Rand has already spoken up for a Christian Nationalist regime, otherwise called a theocracy.
No public schools, or even no schools at all, no redress in court, no right to medical care, a roof over your head or anything else. But you won't pay any taxes or have to follow any regulations ever again, and another plus, no liberals or Democrats will ever vote again.
And if you can't Go Galt with a gun, then FOAD.
Assange's fans like Snowden loved Bush and Ron Paul, but they hate Obama.
I think they could see the writing on the wall and went with Rand. The NRA will now come to his defense and love Assange just as much as they do Rand. Just like Alex Jones, etc.
Can the AFA and the rest of the groups on the SPLC list be far behind?
Deep stuff here. I need to get into my hip waders.
Response to freshwest (Reply #33)
Fri Aug 23, 2013, 02:21 AM
Cha (257,350 posts)
50. I'm just glad that assange is waving his rand/ron paul colors,
So much human pretzeling going on defending this dumbshit.. I just want to say.. "spin this"!
Response to Cha (Reply #50)
Fri Aug 23, 2013, 03:01 AM
freshwest (53,661 posts)
52. There's also the Snowden loving on Bush and the Iraq war, and wanting whistleblowers shot in the ...
Last edited Fri Aug 23, 2013, 03:46 AM - Edit history (1)
These guys have proven themselves to be RWers and Koch roaches. At least Greenwald has, if you've looked into the 'Exiled,' his former partners who knew a lot about him.
They revealed it wasn't just some libertarian flirtation for him, he was just loving hanging out with those guys. The pix made me wanna hurl. These guys are 1% shills, they hang with them, live like them and share their views.
It's very apparent, when yu see their focus. It's why they never get down in the lower levels with us and their fights are all for the powerful interests.
They don't see us as any use, unless they wanna toss us in a meat grinder for their gain. They are never the ones that get hurt, just like the royals didn't get hurt when they sent their followers off to fight their battles with other royals for their profits.
It never benefits us to get intl their games, no matter how they package it. Now they want us to be footsoldiers agains their competitors. Also to fight with ourselves and not look UP and smell the damned coffee.
None of these guys have a track record of working on the things Democrats care about, that Obama cares about, minorities, the poor, elderly and disabled.
They are tight with people that want to abuse and kill us off. I'm not gonna fight for them, they don't give a flying fuck about my human rights.
Anyone who falls into their cult is their tool and a fool.
Response to struggle4progress (Reply #12)
Thu Aug 22, 2013, 09:04 PM
Number23 (24,544 posts)
43. You know, when I read about all of this in the Aussie media I instinctively knew that NO ONE on GD
would want to talk about any of this.
And DAMN if I wasn't right. The silence in this thread is deafening. Hilarious and totally expected, but deafening.
Response to ProSense (Original post)
Thu Aug 22, 2013, 07:20 AM
Warren Stupidity (48,181 posts)
13. War criminals get immunity. A whistleblower gets 35 years.
And the authoritarian booster league is talking up old nonsense.
Response to Warren Stupidity (Reply #13)
Thu Aug 22, 2013, 07:51 AM
struggle4progress (108,467 posts)
24. "I think it's great to see the Wikileaks Party stand tall with the neo-Nazi who tried to kill
an ANC representative in Australia during the anti-apartheid struggle!"
Response to Warren Stupidity (Reply #13)
Thu Aug 22, 2013, 04:19 PM
msanthrope (37,549 posts)
35. "Old nonsense?" This is about the current AU election that Assange is fucking up, quite
Response to msanthrope (Reply #35)
Fri Aug 23, 2013, 02:17 AM
Cha (257,350 posts)
49. Shhhh.. they do not want to hear about assange "fucking up"..
even though that's exactly what he's doing.
"Anonymous appalled by WikiLeaks"
"...We have been worried about the direction WikiLeaks is going for sometime now. In the past year the focus has moved away from actual leaks and the fight for freedom of information and concentrated more and more on Julian Assange and a rabid scrounging for money," the hackers noted."
h/t freshwest http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=3515856
Response to ProSense (Original post)
Thu Aug 22, 2013, 07:22 AM
struggle4progress (108,467 posts)
14. Rightwing parties get WikiLeaks preferences
Assange grouping says Australia First and Shooters party being ahead of Greens on New South Wales Senate ticket is an error
Gabrielle Chan, political correspondent
Sunday 18 August 2013 03.32 EDT
... Australia First's policies include "passive resistance" against refugees, multiculturalism and foreign ownership. The Shooters and Fishers party is running on a platform to increase access to public land and waters for recreational shooters and fishers, as well as reduce Australia's foreign aid budget ...
Response to ProSense (Original post)
Thu Aug 22, 2013, 07:25 AM
struggle4progress (108,467 posts)
15. Assange's Wikileaks runs into Australian election troubles
By James Grubel
... Polls show his party is unlikely to attract the 17 percent of the vote needed to win a Senate seat -- including "preference" ballots from other parties under Australia's complex proportional voting system.
If he did win, he would need to return to Australia or his party would hand the seat to the second candidate on its list, Leslie Cannold.
But Cannold has now quit the Wikileaks Party, saying it was undemocratic and suggesting other candidates might also resign ...
The Wikileaks Party said it would review its preference deals. But the preference arrangements had to be lodged with the Electoral Commission last week and it is now too late to make any changes. It is also too late for Cannold to be removed from the ballot papers ...
Response to ProSense (Original post)
Thu Aug 22, 2013, 07:28 AM
struggle4progress (108,467 posts)
16. WikiLeaks attacked for directing preferences to right-wing parties
August 19, 2013
Heath Aston
... The chairman of Australia First, Jim Saleam, is a former neo-Nazi who was convicted in the late 1980s of organising a shotgun attack on the home of an Australian representative of the African National Congress ...
It is understood WikiLeaks have gone into a complex preference deal with micro parties, mainly right-wing, in a bid to get a candidate into the senate ...
Response to struggle4progress (Reply #16)
Thu Aug 22, 2013, 09:07 PM
treestar (76,847 posts)
44. Right wing parties over the Greens
Now that's telling.
Response to ProSense (Original post)
Thu Aug 22, 2013, 07:31 AM
struggle4progress (108,467 posts)
17. WikiLeaks Party risks Abbott controlled Senate
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
By Simon Butler
... The Australia First Party (AFP), which says even the One Nation Party is too soft on refugees, wants to suspend all immigration to Australia, deport all refugees that have arrived since 2007 and bring back capital punishment.
The AFP is led by former Australian Nazi Party member Jim Salaem. Saleam was jailed for three and a half years for his involvement in the 1989 non-fatal shooting of the African National Congress representative in Australia, Eddie Funde.
The NSW WikiLeaks Party preferences placed the Socialist Alliance even further down the list behind the Greens. The Socialist Alliance is placed below the Labor Party, the Liberal Party, the National Party, The Australian Motoring Enthusiast Party and extreme-right groups such as Family First, The Democratic Labour Party and the Australian Protectionist Party ...
Response to struggle4progress (Reply #17)
Thu Aug 22, 2013, 07:26 PM
freshwest (53,661 posts)
40. I hate Illinois, er, Australian Nazis!
Okay, a Texas Nazi. Where there's smoke, there's fire. MOAR Ron Paul Racism:
They are giving Assange hero Rand's daddy a bad name, that website.
And being mean to Ron's son, those guys are. Sorry, couldn't help myself.
Sorta disappointed with the Land Down Under. A real workers' paradise and all of that. Sigh...
Response to ProSense (Original post)
Thu Aug 22, 2013, 07:33 AM
joshcryer (60,809 posts)
18. He couldn't see the right wing AU First taking over?
I mean, I think that's pretty silly, myself, the preference process was based specifically on the candidates, and he should've seen, even with a cursory glance, that the right wing fascists were taking over the platform.
I personally don't believe he didn't notice or recognize what it would do to the Wikileaks party. He lives in his own reality where right wing Libertarian nonsense is actually valid.
Response to joshcryer (Reply #18)
Thu Aug 22, 2013, 04:15 PM
ProSense (116,464 posts)
34. It's a lame excuse.
Assange is a RW tool.
Response to ProSense (Original post)
Thu Aug 22, 2013, 07:34 AM
struggle4progress (108,467 posts)
19. Greens slam WikiLeaks Party's 'hostile' voting preferences
Summary: Greens communications spokesperson Scott Ludlam has slammed the decision of the WikiLeaks Party to preference Nationals Senate candidates over the Greens in Western Australia.
By Josh Taylor
August 19, 2013 -- 07:22 GMT (00:22 PDT)
... Australia's compulsory preferential voting system ensures that every vote cast ultimately ends up for a particular candidate who is voted in. This means that a vote for a candidate who doesn't meet the required quota to be elected is transferred to the next preferred candidate ...
WikiLeaks has not commented on the situation in WA, but a similar preferencing arrangement in NSW that sees the extreme right-wing parties of The Shooters & Fishers and Australia First preferenced above the Greens was labelled as an "administrative error" by the WikiLeaks Party yesterday. Ludlam said that the Greens had known the WikiLeaks Party was planning to preference that way last week.
"There's no administrative error. One of our guys was told last week well before this decision got locked away that that was what they were going to do," Ludlam said ...
Response to ProSense (Original post)
Thu Aug 22, 2013, 07:36 AM
struggle4progress (108,467 posts)
20. Wikileaks Party scrambles to explain election decisions
Anger at preference deals
By Richard Chirgwin, 18th August 2013
... individual Wikileaks Party members remained under siege over the preference arrangements. NSW Senate candidate Kelly Tranter posted and then deleted a Twitter post saying that the Greens were punished because they did a deal with the ALP, a party sending asylum seekers to gulags. Later, explaining that post, she stated that The Greens spent weeks talking about the cruelty of the ALP and then do a deal with them.
The administrative error explanation was not deployed in Western Australia. Instead, lead candidate Gerry Georgatos a disaffected former Green who had once proposed forming a party called The Real Greens defended the preferencing decision on the basis that it would not affect Ludlam's chances in the election.
Scott [Ludlam] is effective first preference. Minors no threat. Rest is just hyperbole & disappointing. WikiLeaks WA no deals with anyone, Georgatos posted on Twitter.
In Victoria, where the Wikileaks Party says there is no mistake, candidates under the right-wing libertarian group The Liberal Democrats nothing to do with the party of the same name in the UK rank higher than any mainstream party ...
Response to ProSense (Original post)
Thu Aug 22, 2013, 07:42 AM
SidDithers (43,884 posts)
21. DU rec...nt
Response to ProSense (Original post)
Thu Aug 22, 2013, 07:47 AM
struggle4progress (108,467 posts)
22. Key WikiLeaks Senate candidate quits due to lack of 'democratic processes'
By chief political correspondent Emma Griffiths
Updated August 21, 2013 19:15:19
... In Western Australia, WikiLeaks has given its preferences to the Nationals ahead of one of WikiLeaks' biggest supporters, Greens Senator Scott Ludlum.
The party blamed the NSW decision on "administrative errors" but Dr Cannold disputes that.
"There were some indications that that was possibly not the case," she told PM ...
Dr Cannold says she understands other members will also quit the party today because of a "collective concern" about the party's processes.
Response to ProSense (Original post)
Thu Aug 22, 2013, 07:49 AM
struggle4progress (108,467 posts)
23. Leslie Cannold quits as WikiLeaks party candidate
Victoria Senate candidate resigns after party lodged preferences placing rightwingers over Greens
Gabrielle Chan, political correspondent
Wednesday 21 August 2013 04.10 EDT
The WikiLeaks party's number two Victoria Senate candidate, Leslie Cannold, has resigned amid a storm over the party's preferences, which favoured rightwing extremists ahead of the Greens.
Cannold's decision came as Julian Assange's party declared it would issue a how-to-vote card to its supporters to override the lodged preferences.
The party also announced an independent review into the communications and decision-making process around preferences, though it has claimed it was an "administrative error".
Cannold said she discovered the review, promised immediately, would be delayed until after the election and would not be independent. She said it reflected problems with the "capacity of the party" ...
Response to ProSense (Original post)
Thu Aug 22, 2013, 08:08 AM
struggle4progress (108,467 posts)
25. WikiLeaks' campaign for Senate implodes
August 22, 2013
Deborah Snow, Daniel Hurst
... Three other WikiLeaks council members, Sam Castro, Kaz Cochrane and Luke Pearson and three campaign staff were also resigning late on Wednesday. Dr Cannold tweeted that there had been "5 more #wikileaksparty resignations" in addition to Dr Mathews. Ms Castro told Fairfax Media she and other members of the WikiLeaks Australian Citizens Alliance had tried for two hours to get a call through to Mr Assange in London on Wednesday evening, and had also tried unsuccessfully to convene a crisis meeting of the Council ...
Response to ProSense (Original post)
Thu Aug 22, 2013, 11:06 AM
struggle4progress (108,467 posts)
26. WikiLeaks 'not a front for the Greens'
12:01am August 23, 2013
... Greens Leader Christine Milne went as far as accusing WikiLeaks as "betraying" her party.
The party has rejected that claim, saying it had placed the Greens first among the major parties in all states where it has candidates.
"Milne's comments must be seen as ungracious and part of a hostile attempt to divert voters from the WikiLeaks Party," it said in a statement on Thursday ...
WikiLeaks has both right-wing and left-wing policy goals, it says ...
Response to ProSense (Original post)
Thu Aug 22, 2013, 11:09 AM
struggle4progress (108,467 posts)
27. Former Wikileaks Party staffer says Assanges father was the caller that led to resignations
By Terence Huynh on August 22, 2013
Former Wikileaks Party social media captain Sean Bedlam who is also a member of the Wikileaks Australian Citizens Alliance has said that he was one of the recipients of the series of calls that led to the mass resignation of Leslie Cannold and six others (including himself), and has revealed the identity of the caller.
In a series of tweets, he has identified John Shipton the partys secretary and Julian Assanges father as the person who made the calls ...
Response to ProSense (Original post)
Thu Aug 22, 2013, 11:14 AM
struggle4progress (108,467 posts)
28. Why I resigned from the WikiLeaks party (Daniel Mathews)
I was a member of the WikiLeaks party national council and have been a friend of Julian Assange since university. Here is why I am resigning from my position
Daniel Mathews
Wednesday 21 August 2013 23.19 EDT
... National council meetings have been held at least weekly for several months. Until last Friday, Julian had attended precisely one meeting. He is extremely busy, of course, and has many important things to do. Helping Edward Snowden is surely more important than attending a council meeting. But still, attending one out of the first 13 National council meetings of the party (all of which he could call in to) is a fairly low participation rate in ones own party, for a man confined to an embassy equipped with a telephone ...
Although Assange had not attended the meeting, after receiving the councils resolution by email he quickly wrote a long email entitled NC micromanagement of preferences, in which he expressed his displeasure with the council in making such requests, and proposed an alternative structure for preference decisions. Negotiations would be done by lead candidates, with no restraints on them, and Assange having a right of veto. He proposed giving the national council a role in rubber-stamping the results of this process.
Thus, one member of the national council was proposing to grant themselves a right of veto and to reduce it to a rubber stamp. Given the eagerness of some to pursue deals even with the far right, I and several others on the national council were keen to retain the national councils role in these important decisions.
I told the council that the party could have been set up autocratically, but it was not set up that way. It was set up with a reasonably democratic structure, with a governing council with membership and representation from various sectors supportive of, and related to, WikiLeaks. If it could be overridden by the lead candidate when he disagreed, it would be a sham. This received the support of several others on the council, and it thus appeared that the council would not be reduced to a sham ...
Response to ProSense (Original post)
Thu Aug 22, 2013, 11:19 AM
struggle4progress (108,467 posts)
29. WikiLeaks Party falls apart
By Michelle Starr
August 22, 2013
Ethicist Dr Leslie Cannold and mathematician Dr Daniel Mathews have both announced their resignations from Julian Assange's WikiLeaks Party, citing the allocation of voting preferences to right-wing parties as the reason for their abrupt departures ...
Dr Mathews went into rather more detail on his personal blog ...
Mathews' closing statements, however, were damning for the WikiLeaks Party. "<Assange> really ought not to have set up a party with internal democracy. As his own political self, he has many innovative ideas, influence, eloquence, knowledge and skills," he said. "He is, however, his own man, and not one suited to a party with democratic National Council oversight. I wish him luck and all the best for the election and the future" ...
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struggle4progress (108,467 posts)
30. Cannold quits, Wikileaks haemorrhages
By Evelyn Tsitas - posted Thursday, 22 August 2013
... News of Cannold's decision was carried within hours by the Sydney Morning Herald, Brisbane Times, ABC Online, The Australian, the Herald Sun, SBS , and The Guardian.
But not, officially, by the WikiLeaks Party. The same party, no less, whose Senate candidates jointly issued a statement on 10 August about how the Daily Telegraph's Election coverage undermines Australian Democracy; "when such blatant political positioning is combined with the pitiful facts of the extreme concentration of ownership in the Australian media, we have to be concerned for the health of Australian democracy."
That is the type of statement that may come back to haunt a party less than eager to air its dirty washing in transparent view of everyone. Indeed, on the WikiLeaks Party website, there is a repost and comments of a 2010 talk Julian Assange did with Director of TED Talk Chris Anderson. Assange said, "Can it possibly be true, it's a worry isn't it, that the rest of the world media is doing such a bad job that a little group of activists is able to release more of that type of information than the rest of the world press combined."
Perhaps those who live by these words should be prepared to stick by them during the election. Is it too much to expect an immediate response from the WikiLeaks Party about Cannold's resignation? Or from Assange about his second running mate's sudden exit? ...
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Thu Aug 22, 2013, 11:36 AM
struggle4progress (108,467 posts)
31. Milne mocks WikiLeaks preference blunder
August 20, 2013 3:17PM
... Greens leader Christine Milne ... said it was "shocking" Julian Assange's party had "betrayed" WA Greens Senator Scott Ludlam by putting him last on their how to vote card, behind conservative candidates, given he was one of their staunchest supporters.
"WikiLeaks has said that their preference arrangements in NSW, Victoria and Western Australia were all administrative errors," she told reporters in Perth.
"One has to wonder how it is possible to make administrative errors with three different sets of negotiations in three states.
"If that is the best they can do, it's not a very good recommendation to be sending anyone from that party to Canberra" ...
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Thu Aug 22, 2013, 07:09 PM
Number23 (24,544 posts)
38. I LOVE you, Prosense. I posted about this yesterday
but I was not going to start an OP about it. I don't start OPs in this forum anymore.
This is the post I did yesterday http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=572309
Not only does he have a serious problem with democracy within his organization, but he has been aligning his party with known white supremacists and right wingers. What a shock. The man who admitted admiring Ron Paul and ran from the law rather than face justice is a right winger. Seems everyone with half a clue has jumped the Assange ship. Which would certainly explain his unending devotees in GD.
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Thu Aug 22, 2013, 09:22 PM
Cha (257,350 posts)
45. "its first preferences to far-right wing candidates and parties in New South Wales, including the..
Australia First Party which is headed by a convicted criminal and former neo-Nazi."
WTH?! That's like asshat saying "rand paul is the only one who can save America". What a fucking joke.
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Thu Aug 22, 2013, 09:49 PM
struggle4progress (108,467 posts)
47. The WikiLeaks party could learn about transparency from the Pirate party
The WikiLeaks party seems to be imploding, with candidates and volunteers resigning en masse. Australia's Pirate party, on the other hand, is more transparent and accountable
Asher Wolf
Thursday 22 August 2013 21.38 EDT
... The WikiLeaks party preferenced the extreme right party Australia First above the Greens in New South Wales, and placed WikiLeaks-supporter Western Australian Greens senator Ludlam below the Nationals. While many party members initially claimed their unpalatable choices were an administrative error, many have since suggested such claims are a bald-faced lie, especially since Greens staffer Max Phillips had already noted last week that WikiLeaks partys NSW deputy registered officer Cassie Findlay had informed him of their preferences at least a week before the error became public knowledge.
Others, such as Western Australian WikiLeaks party Senate candidate Gerry Georgatis, aren't claiming preferencing decisions are any kind of mistake. In fact, Georgatis seems happy about it, which may have something to do with the fact that he was a previous Greens candidate. Crickey reports he broke with the Greens in 2009, and one may guess, was potentially thrilled at the opportunity to slide the knife in at any cost much to the horror of party volunteers, who appear to be quitting en masse ...
The answer lies with participatory democracy in party processes. WikiLeaks partys national council seemed to compromise mostly of a self-elected group of friends and loosely linked acquaintances. They rushed to select potential electoral candidates and create a policy platform in time for the Australian Electoral Council (AEC). The WikiLeaks party national council meetings seem to have mostly been a closed affair as a result, there possibly wasnt critical oversight to scrutinise processes and add much needed pressure to ensure the party was run democratically ...
Response to ProSense (Original post)
Fri Aug 23, 2013, 12:08 PM
Dawson Leery (17,858 posts)
53. Assange and company are hardliners against government services which
help people. Assange and Snowden are Rand Paul fans. That says enough.
For the record, the Australia First Party = Tea Party.
Assange has no integrity.


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License to print money... BitCoin?
|April 6th, 2013 at 5:47:54 PM permalink
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Thanks for recommending that article. As insightful, funny, and articulate as anything I've read about the subject.
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Bitcoin converter currently at $259.00
Since that article was written on 1 April: Bitcoin Holds More Value Than the Entire Currency Stock of 20 Nations, the value of the bitcoin exceeded M3 of another 21 nations and/or territories.
148 Tajikistan
149 Montenegro < FIRST EUROPEAN COUNTRY
150 Kyrgyzstan
151 Guinea
152 Aruba
153 Guyana
154 Turkmenistan
155 Chad
156 Rwanda
157 Togo
158 Malawi
159 Cape Verde
160 Maldives
161 Belize
162 Niger
163 Djibouti
164 Sierra Leone
165 Saint Lucia
166 Antigua and Barbuda
167 Swaziland
168 Bhutan
It's the easiest 'this funds terrorism' scare argument the government will ever try to make, so a big battle within the next year or two is pretty much guaranteed, Greg Kumparak
|April 10th, 2013 at 12:47:29 PM permalink
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Bitcoin conversion
Is it over already? They dropped from $260 to $150 today (over the last few hours).
Did the market fall? Did Interpol and FBI get involved? Was it a scam or just human nature? Will it rise back up?
|April 10th, 2013 at 10:31:26 PM permalink
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The primary trading site MtGox reported a drop in value all the way down to 140 USD today, a loss of almost half in real value. With many sites unreachable or slow, there are also news of a possible DDoS attack on MtGox: 'Attackers wait until the price of Bitcoins reaches a certain value, sell, destabilize the exchange, wait for everybody to panic-sell their Bitcoins, wait for the price to drop to a certain amount, then stop the attack and start buying as much as they can.
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NYTimes: As big investors emerge, BitCoin ...Bitcoin.
|April 11th, 2013 at 6:41:23 PM permalink
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Currently $68.12 . Still several times the value the Winklevoss twins paid.
Back up to $74.00
If for some reason there is a counterfeiting scare that affects the estimated over $0.5 trillion in $100 banknotes circulating overseas, I always assumed the money would be invested in Euros or Japanese Yen, or Canadian dollars. But given the logistic difficulties in finding that many banknotes, it may be that bitcoins will be one option.
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One article you will all want to research ...
Bit Coin Future May Depend Upon Pornography:
Huffington Post.
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If you were to ask people about why they prefer banknotes they will give you a lot of reasons. But among the most prominent will be anonymity. People want to be anonymous for all kinds of reasons from simple to complex. They don't want their wife to see all the charges at a local gas station because they are buying packs of cigarettes and they said they quit. They have a mistress. They are buying pornography. They are avoiding taxes. The list goes on and on forever.
One line from the movie Heartburn (1986) that I remember was Meryl Streep yelling at Jack Nicholson that he didn't even have the decency to pay cash for his hotel rooms with his mistress. Women see nothing wrong with going through their husband's credit card statement, but he was being particularly cruel by not even trying to pay in cash.
But the Canadian central bank is trying to encourage the use of electronic anonymous money. There are some efforts in the USA but they are all private. I am not aware of any government programs.
The article should be about the value of "anonymous electronic currency" which is one attribute of bitcoins, but not it's defining feature.
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Most of the major casinos in Las Vegas have commercial sounding corporate entities with accommodation addresses in California and elsewhere so that markers can be paid off without a paper trail to a casino. Just as drug deals sometimes turn on parking lot ticket stubs and rental car keys, some legitimate business transactions may still be cash oriented from time to time.
BitCoins can't be acceptable to computer nerds and no one else. It has to be a generally accepted currency if it is to survive.
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My personal opinion is it will not grow into a major world currency. It's real legacy will be to cause some national currencies to develop "anonymous electronic money" as an alternative.
And that will also have a limited use as well. Just think how few people remember their credit card numbers or even all their passwords. Anonymous electronic money (of which bitcoin is one) involves remembering a long string of characters that uniquely identifies the money. People write them on pieces of paper and put them in safe deposit boxes if the money is considerable. If it is small amounts of money you could put the information on a smart phone along with the electronic information to make it useful. That way if it is stolen it will be as if your banknotes were stolen.
To switch your entire currency to electronic money will be an unpopular choice as well. It should only appeal to small countries like Iceland (pop 300K) which is interested in switching to another currency to replace it's own battered one. They might switch to Danish crown, Canadian dollar, Euro, etc. Joining a currency union is one thing, but unilaterally switching to another currency is difficult since you must procure banknotes at face value. That is why in the past it is only done for compelling reasons (hyperinflation has destroyed the value of your own currency is a good reason).

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A friend of a friend has asked me to comment on a software business idea from a technical standpoint; if the proposed user story can be implemented, how much it would cost and if there already exists something similar that could be customized.
Instead of responding directly, I thought I would conserve my keystrokes and blog about it, first answering the technical questions and secondly providing business suggestions. I might not be a business expert, but I do play one on
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Can it be done?
The software to implement the idea is certainly possible (most ideas are, for a price!). While I haven't built something exactly like what is described, I have worked on web applications before and nothing jumps out as difficult, aside from the video part.
The video part sounds slightly scary because video files can be big, which makes the storage and transmission costs significant (compared to the ongoing costs of the rest of the application). A few years ago, you would have had to worry about designing (and building!) a system to store all those files, receiving and sending them quickly across the internet, but nowadays, you can save on infrastructure costs by using Amazon Web Services (AWS), which is pretty neat because you only pay for what you use.
How much would it cost?
A lot of it depends on the sophistication, which really boils down to the number and complexity of features. It would be a matter of establishing priorities and deciding on a time box to work in, after which the software would be released to the first batch of potential customers for feedback. Depending on how well that goes, the project could then be killed, pivoted or evolved.
Rob Walling suggests a time frame of 2 months, which he estimates would cost about $40 000 if he did everything himself (based on his consulting rate) and between $8 000 and $27 000 if he hired out the work, depending on the cost of living where the work is done. That's just to build the software and the website.
I mentioned that video would add a noticeable cost for storage and transmission, but that depends on the number of videos, their quality, their length and how often they are accessed. If estimates can be provided for these factors, some numbers can then be plugged in to the AWS calculator.
Let's play along with this sample video: it is 1:40 long and clocks in at 6.61 megabytes (MB) (the YouTube page it is on is estimated at 1.12 MB, although that's only if you have never been to YouTube before - the cache will avoid the re-transmission of almost 1 MB). YouTube calls this quality level "360p"; the video was resized (by YouTube) to 480x368. Let's say a typical user would view 10 videos like this one every week and let's say you have 1000 active users doing that. That gives us 6.61 * 10 * 1000 = 66 100 MB ~= 66 GB/week. Let's assume you have 10 000 such video files to choose from, so that's 10 000 * 6.61 MB ~= 66 GB of storage. I plugged those into the S3 and CloudFront calculators and came up with a monthly bill of $91.34. That's not bad at all (almost downright cheap!), but remember that's just to store and transmit video you already have for 10 000 views/week (a similar exercise would have to be performed for uploading videos - it costs more to upload). The hosting costs for the rest of the website (i.e. the parts around the video) would likely be much less, but that depends on the features and the technologies involved (i.e. do you want to resize the uploaded videos, too?).
Lastly, there are costs around supporting and evolving the software. Unfortunately, while the first might be stable, the second one is most certainly a race against your competitors, otherwise you might lose customers to the shiny new stuff the other guys added.
Is there a package that can be customized or adapted?
That part, I don't know. This would require a decent amount of searching and evaluation. If there is something out there, then the customizations done to it better be extensive, otherwise anybody else can come along and copy you.
The business side of things
I figured I would provide a lot of information on the business side because I was afraid the idea could be easily copied by one of the existing players, making for a very rough start.
How good is the idea?
Is the idea solving a gnarly problem or is it low-hanging fruit that a bigger company could simply copy? Are you creating value for your users or introducing a Rube Goldberg way of doing things? If you are trying to compete with an existing player, are you at least making the cheese bigger or reducing the electric shocks? What market are you targeting and should you target another one entirely?
The idea sounds good to you, but have you tried asking your friends? (oh, right!) What about potential customers? Is it something you would use? If it already existed, would YOU pay for it? The Start Small, Stay Small book recommends testing the waters by creating a "coming soon" website that talks about and/or shows a preview of the idea and gives visitors the opportunity to provide their e-mail address to be notified of the release. This is great because you either end up with a great list of leads or confirmation that people aren't even willing to give you their e-mail address.
Don't worry too much about the idea, though: You might find that the idea changes or evolves as you get feedback or, better yet, customers!
How will the idea spread?
What kind of sales & marketing are you planning? Is the value of the idea dependent on how many users you have? This is called the Network effect and you have to consider how you will attract users regardless; the best case scenario is the idea is so awesome that users can't help but tell all their friends about it (i.e. "go viral"). One trending idea is to encourage (and sometimes force!) the word-of-mouth by broadcasting to social networks use of the product or service (such as "I just started playing Super Cabbage Town") or - even better - achievements (such as "I just jogged 5 km with the help of Jogz Pro").
If the idea requires users have an account, unless your idea has a seriously big cheese, sign-ups will be difficult, because for glaven out loud, I don't want to have to remember yet another user name and password unless it's really worth it. Thankfully, your service could probably piggy-back on top of Facebook Connect or OpenID, the former giving you the aforementioned ability to
spam inform friends and family.
How will you make money?
Don't try to compete on price - especially if you copy a competitor - because you'll always be playing catch-up as they add new features (unless you enjoy that sort of thing or are somehow able to add features faster than they can).
Ads don't work if users are too engaged. There might be ways of making Facebook ads better but then again, is Facebook a Ponzi Scheme? Users will be paying for the product or service one way or another, you just have to decide on one or more of the following options:
- displaying ads
- selling user information, usage patterns, etc.
- have users pay first; lump sum, payment plan or subscription?
- "freenium" (offering free & premium versions, although freenium doesn't always work)
- upselling (upgrades, add-ons, complements)
Pricing isn't easy, either. Here's another point-of-view on the topic in the form of a free(!) e-book called Don't Just Roll the Dice.
Shit happens
Sometimes you have an idea and then evil corporate lawyers show up. As a new and small business, you have the advantage of agility and can adjust to something like that. Speaking of Network Hippo, these guys have a way of reducing the "switching cost" (i.e. reducing the electric shocks) by importing your contact list from your LinkedIn network. Facebook offers to do the same thing with their Friend Finder that scans your e-mail accounts. Is there something you can do to make it easier for people to get started with your product or service?
If When a competitor implements a similar "smooth transition" to their product or service (from yours!), will you have enough value to encourage your users to stay?
Closing links
Determination is key. Execution is what matters. Passion can be a competitive advantage. Channel your inner Leeroy Jenkins.


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Aristotle famously declared that "man without a city is either beast or god," by which he meant that communal participation is the defining characteristic of being human.
So when Anthony Luciano, the New York based accessories designer whose newest collection of lux handbags is flying off the shelves at Neiman Marcus, responds aphoristically in an email that "I'm not participating in the recession," you have to wonder if he is some glib beast whose head is stuck in the economic sand or, quite possibly, the incarnate deity that every retailer could use at the moment.
"I can only expand," he wrote in another email exchange, " by saying I believe that even in tough economic times people are still drawn to beautiful and unique things which is what I do best. I have, of course, put more price conscious items into the line to attract a more discerning client but I will always do special custom made lux accessories."
Eureka. Who needs any more bedazler logo crazed "status" bags? Who ever needed those in the first place? In his current collection, Mr Luciano's uses soft waxed and hand painted python to remarkable effect, producing, for instance, weightless hobo carryalls with over exaggerated leather tassels and irresistibly soft clutches with feminine floral touches. The waxing and painting produces solid colored surfaces that remind one of licorice or liquid, even. Colored python skins have a subtlety akin to watercolors.
Even in July of last year someone had the good sense to point out to Women's Wear Daily that "if you want people to part with their money, they have to feel like they are getting something for it." One wishes more retailers and designers shared WWD's and Mr. Luciano's insight. People don't want basics in a down economy. They already have plenty of those. And they've already had it with items whose prices bear no relation to craftsmanship.
Even if you've only recently started pinching your pennies, giving you something for your money is not a new concept for Mr. Luciano. Inside each of his handbags you'll find he has sewn in a penny, his trademark since he started his company in 2000. "It's an Italian tradition. When you give a handbag or wallet as a gift you should put money in it first for good luck."
WHERE: Neiman Marcus Michigan Ave on Thursday October 8th and Friday October 9th
WHAT: Meet Anthony Luciano and watch him construct pieces by hand on the selling floor. Take the opportunity to collaborate with the designer and choose from a variety of hand picked frames from his vast collection to create a custom bag. Anthony will help you choose the perfect leather and sketch a design and make your unique piece.


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We asked: Which plant should we sponsor in the quest to catalog the flora of Baxter State Park?
And you said: The one that smells like carrion.
Help Us Pick a Baxter Plant
- Trillium erectum - Red trillium (73%, 11 Votes)
- Viburnum lantanoides - Hobblebush (27%, 4 Votes)
- Sibbaldiopsis tridentata - Three-toothed cinquefoil (0%, 0 Votes)
- Chrysosplenium americanum - Water carpet (0%, 0 Votes)
Total Voters: 15
We're not sure what to make of that, although we do know where to find a few clothespins if necessary.
We'll shortly send off our donation to support this great project. You, too, can sponsor your own species if you want. Just toddle on over to the site and see what's in the list.
What an inventive way to show your love for the great state of Maine. The park does not have any type of guide to the flora located within Baxter's boundaries.
Glen Mittelhauser, executive director of the Maine Natural History Observatory and co-conspirator on Wild Wednesday here at Garden Maine, is trailblazing the path for this incredible project.
Thanks for voting, voters. We think.


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The Letter
By Julie Boyd · 2 min read · From 500 Words: The Kindness of Strangers
It was a Monday. I don't usually bother collecting my mail until Thursday or Friday as the only snail mail that arrives these days are bills. I don't know what compelled me that day. One letter fell out of the pile. A small, innocuous, white envelope with a handwritten address, for me.
I crossed the road to the beach, sat down and tore it open.
"I don't know anyone else I can ask to do this, but I know you're a psychologist, so you will handle this better than anyone else." The beautiful cursive script was that of someone who had grown up as part of my parent's generation. I read on, vice-like trepidation gripping my gut.
"I need you to call the police and ask them to go to my house please. I've left everything in order. There is another letter on the kitchen table that the police might need. The key is under the front door mat. Thank you." Regards, Bruce.
I knew the bloke, but he wasn't a close friend. We'd worked together on some community projects, and he was a passionate campaigner for resident's rights. He'd resigned last week from a local association, saying that he had family business to take care of. He'd talked several times about how important a particular date was to him: the date he had written so beautifully on the letter. It had seemed a little odd to those around him at the time, but they assumed he was taking off to see one of his two daughters.
Waves started to wash over my feet.
The tide was coming in fast.
Suddenly I sprang into action, hurried home to call the police, then drove to Bruce's house to meet them.
The key was under the doormat, and I started to laugh – a stress reaction, which shocked the young constable who was standing beside me.
"Why are you laughing?" She asked.
"Why would a dead person be worried about locking the door?" I responded to her highly disturbed face. She looked as if she hadn't had much experience with death.
It made no sense. Why would a person who had a lovely home, heaps of friends and was highly respected in his community, suddenly choose to end his own life? Why tell me?
As we walked inside it became clear that this was not a sudden decision. The police were amazed at his thoroughness. He had carefully washed, folded and packed all his bedding and clothes.
All bagged and carefully labelled. Some for friends, the Salvos, for other charities and community groups, and some for specific needy families. He had cleaned out all his cupboards and even the fridge. All his paperwork was laid out with similar instructions on the kitchen table. All his bills were paid up to the day of his death and the receipts piled neatly together.
He lay on the floor, on a tarpaulin beside the table. He looked peaceful but unsmiling.
I called his closest friend who had just opened his letter. It was just saying goodbye, and asking that no funeral or memorial be held. His daughters were not mentioned.
Bruce exited quietly from the community but not from our memories.


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TANK you for the overwhelming response to MIT Technology Review Pakistan's inaugural edition. We appreciate your calls, emails, shares, likes, letters and comments. Check out our feedback page for the top five posts selected from your response. The second edition's theme revolves around the global entrepreneurial startups landscape, with particular emphasis on Pakistan. Can there be another Silicon Valley in the world? Can we replicate the success of Silicon Valley in Pakistan?
Israel and China are great examples of state-backed entrepreneurial ecosystems. In Pakistan too, the government has played a significant role in jump-starting this sector. The Punjab government, in just four years, has managed to launch and grow an early-stage technology incubator, called Plan9. With over six incubation cycles under its belt, it has nurtured around 100 startups, providing them with free furnished offices... Read more
Can Pakistan be the next Silicon Valley?
ADOLPH Schwimmer — who preferred 'Al' over Adolph — sat next to the Shimon Peres, who became Israeli president half a century later, in a plane flying over the Arctic tundra. They were heading for Israel. This was 1953. The 2nd World War was over but not yet forgotten. Having previously smuggled warplanes to Israel for the 1948 War, Schwimmer's mandate was different this time. It was building an aerospace startup in Israel on invitation by David Ben-Gurion, the 'founding father of Israel' and its first prime minister. Schwimmer had previously floated the idea himself but backed down realizing he didn't want any part of Israel's socialist economics or crony politics. But Ben-Gurion had culled those fears, promising him a private-styled company and zero government meddling. Originally from California, Schwimmer agreed and relocated to Israel. The aviation company he founded — the Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) — would eventually be valued at $1 billion when Schwimmer retired thirty years later.
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Bad packaging !
I received a small tube of this as a sample and loved it! Once I used that up (it lasted quite awhile), I decided to go ahead and purchase the full size.
I still like the product and the Dewey glow it provides, however the packaging in the full size product is not good at all. It comes in a brush form, and the actual product is very liquidy. Because of the consistency it just keeps running out of the tube. It's made quite a big mess and I feel that a lot of product is wasted.
If I could purchase the sample size, I would, because that packaging makes much more sense.
Probabaly won't buy this item again, unless the packaging is changers.


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I was thinking this morning about Thomas, one of Jesus' twelve disciples. Many will recognise him as 'Doubting Thomas.' We can read about him in John capter 20. Jesus had been crucified and layed in a tomb and his disciples were hiding behind a locked door for fear of a similar fate. The risen Jesus had already been seen but the disciples had a hard time believing it. However the doubts ended when Jesus suddenly appeared in the midst of them. Apart from Thomas who was absent. On returning he famously said he would not believe the resurrection account unless he saw Jesus' pierced hands and side for himself. Jesus waited eight days and granted his request. Thomas then made one of the most important declarations ever recorded in the New Testament he acknowledged Jesus as God "My Lord and my God."
Think about it. Only God is omnipresent. Only God can be invisible and yet have known what Thomas had said eight days earlier. Only God can truly know a mans heart. Perhaps Thomas never doubted at all but rather felt he'd missed out on the big night, after all it would be hard to deny the testimony of ten other close friends. God has shown and continues to show that he is no repector of persons. Any request for a personal encounter with the living God will be granted if the heart is right. That is part of my testimony. God spoke to me ten years ago with that quite, still voice, and changed my life forever. My life was wrong but my heart was searching. Be a Thomas. Dont base your faith solely on the testimony of others, be bold and ask Jesus for your own personal encounter.
Monday, 3 October 2011
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