And he won TIME Magazine's Readers' Choice Person of the Year 2010.Seraph wrote:Orphia Nay over at the Australasian Skeptics Forum wrote:Recent ABC poll results:
Question 639
Should Julian Assange be Australian of the Year?
Yes 67%
No 33%
2898 votes counted
so there was a choice for who to vote for? On what basis?Orphia Nay wrote:Oh, no, I wouldn't either. FWIW, I voted for Jon Stewart & Stephen Colbert.
TIME will announce their choice for Person of the Year on Wednesday.
That's not the reason. I've seen this before in the "I Hate Israel" sub-forum where pro-Israelis say that only Jews get targeted when it's obvious what's really going on.Orphia Nay wrote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informatio ... _WikiLeaksJimC wrote:Thinking about the future of WikiLeaks, I sincerely hope the publicity means that they will attract whistle blowers from a variety of other countries. It has been a little too relentlessly anti-US...
Would love to see some material (at a similar level of secrecy & importance) from Russia, China, Iran, Israel etc...
Mind you, whistleblowers there would face much harder penalties, and the security organs of those countries may pursue the WikiLeaks organisation with a certain vigour...
They've released information on a nuclear accident in Iran, and videos of Tibetan protests against China, and information on a number of other countries such as Australia, Denmark, Peru, Iceland, Ivory Coast, and Germany. But I guess most of us only hear about the US stuff.
Here's the list of candidates.sandinista wrote:so there was a choice for who to vote for? On what basis?Orphia Nay wrote:Oh, no, I wouldn't either. FWIW, I voted for Jon Stewart & Stephen Colbert.
TIME will announce their choice for Person of the Year on Wednesday.
I didn't give any reasons for anything. I really don't know what you're replying to - is it to me? Cheers.Gawd wrote:That's not the reason. I've seen this before in the "I Hate Israel" sub-forum where pro-Israelis say that only Jews get targeted when it's obvious what's really going on.Orphia Nay wrote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informatio ... _WikiLeaksJimC wrote:Thinking about the future of WikiLeaks, I sincerely hope the publicity means that they will attract whistle blowers from a variety of other countries. It has been a little too relentlessly anti-US...
Would love to see some material (at a similar level of secrecy & importance) from Russia, China, Iran, Israel etc...
Mind you, whistleblowers there would face much harder penalties, and the security organs of those countries may pursue the WikiLeaks organisation with a certain vigour...
They've released information on a nuclear accident in Iran, and videos of Tibetan protests against China, and information on a number of other countries such as Australia, Denmark, Peru, Iceland, Ivory Coast, and Germany. But I guess most of us only hear about the US stuff.
From my newspaper reading, the Australian connection seems mostly to be US embassy comments on players in the Australian political scene...Orphia Nay wrote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informatio ... _WikiLeaksJimC wrote:Thinking about the future of WikiLeaks, I sincerely hope the publicity means that they will attract whistle blowers from a variety of other countries. It has been a little too relentlessly anti-US...
Would love to see some material (at a similar level of secrecy & importance) from Russia, China, Iran, Israel etc...
Mind you, whistleblowers there would face much harder penalties, and the security organs of those countries may pursue the WikiLeaks organisation with a certain vigour...
They've released information on a nuclear accident in Iran, and videos of Tibetan protests against China, and information on a number of other countries such as Australia, Denmark, Peru, Iceland, Ivory Coast, and Germany. But I guess most of us only hear about the US stuff.
Ah, yes, oops, good catch!JimC wrote:From my newspaper reading, the Australian connection seems mostly to be US embassy comments on players in the Australian political scene...
Time magazine already announced their choice - Mark Zuckerberg. On Wednesday they will announce the results of the public poll.Orphia Nay wrote:Oh, no, I wouldn't either. FWIW, I voted for Jon Stewart & Stephen Colbert.
TIME will announce their choice for Person of the Year on Wednesday.
sandinista wrote:so there was a choice for who to vote for? On what basis?
The Person of the Year (formerly Man of the Year) is an annual issue of the United States news magazine Time that features and profiles a person, couple, group, idea, place, or machine that "for better or for worse, ...has done the most to influence the events of the year."
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