Today they had a journalism prof from Columbia U talking about the GDP being adjusted down. Then he said the government manipulates the numbers, and the GDP is probably negative!!!

He must be a communist, can't have him on regular American TV!!!

And they're getting calls telling them their tied to Al Qaeda. Damn!

Good show though.

They were talking about mentally ill, etc. Being dumped on the protesters. Maybe occupy should take on that challenge, and more. Maybe it should seek to provide food for the hungry and abandoned and so forth.

It seems like those actions are designed to cultivate a class consciousness. The protesters as higher than those other people. Or to show the protesters as out of touch with reality, they can't deal with real people. The strongest course forward seems like they should say "none of the above" and seek to provide those services. The social order needed to do that, to deal with real situations, seems like the social order Assange was seeking for the movement in this questions.

One of his best interviews so far was with the new Tunisian president, himself once jailed for being a human rights activist under the Ben Ali regime. He let the world know how much he respected Assange, joking about if he ever needed a place to go, he would be welcome in Tunisia. He credited Wikileaks with helping the Tunisian rebellion get started.

Julian had some of the brightest thinkers and planners in the Left Movement. I compare them to those I saw at SDS meetings in 1968, and of course, am so impressed with today's folks. I really enjoyed how Julian directed tougher and tougher questions at specific folks and quickly moved to another when more answers weren't forthcoming, which made this format very viewable. I feel thankful that these fine thinkers and doers are around right now on our side. Further! Justice.