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Are you medusa like Steve? Only photos of you taken in a mirror are safe?

....though I cry at loads of films, which is shameful. Also when I watch films with other people and anything remotely sad happens I get panicky that I might cry even if I don't feel like crying...so I go bright red get short of breath my heart pounds and I sweat like a fat bitch. It's crippling.

It's not fucking acceptable to cry at the football. People that do are cunts of the highest order. Men can cry at the death of a dog or at the end of war films.

Julian Assange is expected to make a public statement later on the diplomatic row that has engulfed him since being granted asylum by Ecuador. Wikileaks says its founder is to speak outside the Ecuadorean embassy in London, where he has been since June. He faces extradition to Sweden over sexual assault claims, which he denies. Ecuador's president has suggested Mr Assange could co-operate with Sweden if assurances are given that there would be no extradition to a third country. Australian Mr Assange, 41 - whose Wikileaks website has published a mass of leaked diplomatic cables embarrassing countries including the US - first walked into the embassy in Knightsbridge, asking for protection, two months ago. Mr Assange entered the embassy after the UK's Supreme Court dismissed his bid to reopen his appeal against extradition and gave him a two-week grace period before extradition proceedings could start. It is established international protocol that local police and security forces are not permitted to enter an embassy, unless they have the express permission of the ambassador. On Thursday a post appeared on the Wikileaks Twitter feed which said: "ANNOUNCEMENT: Julian Assange will give a live statement infront of the Ecuadorian embassy, Sunday 2pm." However, it is not clear precisely how this statement will be made and Mr Assange has been warned by the British authorities that he will be arrested when he leaves the embassy. The BBC's Andrew Plant, outside the Ecuadorean embassy, says there has been much speculation about how Mr Assange might deliver his statement. Our correspondent says the corridors and lifts inside the building, which is shared with Colombia, are communal and not part of the Ecuadorean embassy so police stationed in these areas could arrest Mr Assange before he appears outside. Wikileaks' press feed also said Judge Baltasar Garzon, the head of Mr Assange's legal team, will speak outside the embassy from 11:30 BST, although it gives no indication of what he might say. 'Explicit threat' The Sunday Times quotes sources close to Mr Assange who say he would be prepared to leave the embassy if guarantees are given by Sweden that he will not be extradited to the US. His supporters claim he could face persecution and even the death penalty. On Friday, Ecuador's President Rafael Correa used his weekly national address to say that the South American country had never said Mr Assange should not "answer to the Swedish justice system". "What we have always asked for is a guarantee that there won't be a second extradition to a third country as that would put at risk Mr Assange's life and freedom." Mr Correa said a letter from the British government that drew attention to the Diplomatic and Consular Premises Act 1987 was "intolerable" and an "explicit threat". The act could allow the UK to potentially lift the embassy's diplomatic status to allow police to enter the building to arrest Mr Assange for breaching his bail terms.

I'm in bed posting on my phone. I've woke up and Mrs hf isn't here. Could be a huff on the cards. Think ill stay on my phone as long as possible. Think ill watch motd on iPlayer.

Brilliant. Great day yesterday and I didn't get a call out so I was paid for it. If I was called any time after 8 I would have been no use to anyone but the risk paid off.

Health and safety? Lass in the bank wouldn't let me deposit my change jar for "health and safety" last week. Still haven't got a clue what the fuck she was on about.

I'll be the one in the MF Doom T-shirt

I'm not decided on them yet, but they're 2 of the most well regarded albums to have been released this year mate. http://rateyourmusic.../top/album/2012 http://www.metacriti...-sauvage/gojira I'll be giving them a few goes to see if I agree.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEnOgnWJWMc

Not far off tbf... 09/10 - 40 10/11 - 26 11/12 - 31

Mine was the net spend btw

Songs about political leaders are much more serious than tweets about airports tbf.

People at the top do release info that actually endangers lives though. Look at the case of Scooter Libby. Fully pardoned by the president after actually endangering the lives of US service people, being charged and found guilty.

Thoroughly enjoying the chat mind Ewerk, without a LM derailment that would normally have rendered it shit.

....but actually had lower level security and didn't endanger any lives at all...as the pentagon later confirmed. You're more comfortable with leaks from those in a position of power, with lots to gain personally, leaking top secret stories that shine a positive light on our leaders, for the sake of propaganda and keeping the public support for a "war" that has gone on longer than WW1 and WW2, at a cost of several trillions while hospitals and schools get funding cuts. You're more comfortable with those leaks than leaks from low level grunts with a conscience, people with nothing whatsoever to gain and everything to lose. People who see clear wrong-doing and inform the public, only because it's in the public interest to know the truth. That's not surprising. The truth is more uncomfortable than the propaganda. Being willfully blind to the truth once you know it can't be comfortable though?

I'm sending my tablet by post to pick up once I'm through customs

The leak isn't from Bigelow and her cohorts to the wider public. The leak is from the gentleman giving them the name of a seal. The producers of this film don't have the security clearance for even that tidbit....never mind getting to chat to him off the record about all the shit that went down as they killed Osama. The film was due in December, so the benefit of those leaked secrets will be available then, only when they can benefit Time Warner Corporation financially and President Obama politically.

It was more classified info than anything Manning leaked.

On the other other hand, Carrol was £35m

In other words: military commanders have been lecturing everyone on the evils of talking about classified programs, so we can’t look like we’re violating that, so we’ll instead direct some lower-level planner whose name you can’t use to tell you everything those commanders would tell you. Also, note how the name of the SEAL planner who was to meet with the filmmakers has been blacked out in these documents, and the administration still refuses to reveal that name — but it’s perfectly OK to give that information to Hollywood filmmakers so they can produce the best possible cinematic hagiography of the President. http://www.salon.com/2012/05/23/wh_leaks_for_propaganda_film/

...the details leaked to Bigelow and crew were marked at higher secrecy than anything Manning leaked too iirc. I seem to recall NOTHING Manning leaked was actually "Top Secret"

DHL have got to be pleased with that. Surprised Fergie didn't have to go to the post office to collect him after missing the delivery. Cath words.

How could he have aided? He may have encouraged, but newspaper editors/reporters do that. They do it every day. As do film makers.... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2148682/Obama-administration-leaked-classified-information-filmmakers-Osama-bin-Laden-raid.html you don't see those film-makers or any of the Obama administration that leaked to them on charges do you?

Spot on cheers. My mistake. It's just the torture that's against the law in his case. The 2+ years of pre-trial incarceration he's faced so far is par for the course.