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Great advice, we are so conditioned to swallow the most emotional tales and go charging forward wihtout stopping to explore more facts and just becasue they are hidden does not negate the need to withhold judgement and action until it can be found to sufficiently provide a reasonable basis for belief, But this is not how the system works. Hollywood is a psyop and Asange-gate is jsut like those old classic hollywood movies. The calssic old movies (say the McCall Bogart types) heralded as cinematic classics and most Alfred Hitch-Tavist-ock movies also really do suck. Suspenseful drawing you in until the plot is so convoluted you just accept the largely BS and crappy 30 second resolution to the hour and half roller coaster ride of cinematic "greatness". Asange-gate was an Alt media, Q, MAGA magnet and then poof . All over nothing to see here (literally) you'll remember nothing substantive about this except to not be willing to blow any whistles. Asange turned out alright so what was the point, must not have been too much there anyway. In other words go back to sleep and when you hear Assange in the future you'll fondly remember the whole thing as you instinctively acknowledge how Casablanca, The Matese Faclon, Key Largo, Nrth by Northwest were all great movies without remembering what a real bunch of silly garbage time wasters they were. Smoke and mirrors to distract from the truth. Agree Assange-gate just another in a long line of manufactured manipulation of the masses.

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Frans Susan Phillips Duncan's avatar

Very thought-provoking, Gary Barnett! I'm guilty of taking at face value the report of Assange's release. Without your essay, I never would have given it a second thought. Thank you for this eye-opening report. Because of your writing, I've become a more discerning news reader.

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