I personally think he looks better now with a haircut.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/abcnews24/

I dont know about this guy

you know when you get a gut feeling about someone ? not the wikileaks thing but the other charges made against him as in they might be true but he is hiding behind wikileaks.

no offence to any of his supporters

I still suspect Julian Assange of being Baz Luhrman ala Clark Kent.

Julian Assange has a narcissistic messiah complex.

I defend his right to freedom of speech but there is something about the man I find absurd.

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I dont know about this guy

you know when you get a gut feeling about someone ? not the wikileaks thing but the other charges made against him as in they might be true but he is hiding behind wikileaks.

no offence to any of his supporters

I get the same feeling.

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Julian Assange has a narcissistic messiah complex.

I defend his right to freedom of speech but there is something about the man I find absurd.

Totally agree. I've always thought that this drama he's gotten himself into was what he was after in the first place. He was happy to play the international man of mystery whilst it was all fun and games and easy sex with Swedish woman, but now that he's realised the consequences of his actions could be quite serious he expects everyone to protect him.

I've heard his mother on the radio a few timed in the last few weeks. I find her as irritating as her son.

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I still suspect Julian Assange of being Baz Luhrman ala Clark Kent.

Doesnt look as creepy as Assange. The smile isn't sleazy enough.

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…I've heard his mother on the radio a few timed in the last few weeks. I find her as irritating …

Yes, she sounds SO dopey and bogan.

Someone on QnA says Assange's name is an anagram of 'a ninja sea slug'. And someone else says Swedish law categorises 'unprotected consensual sex as 'sexual assault'.

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I personally think he looks better now with a haircut.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/abcnews24/

I think after the usual friday arvo drinks at the Ecuadorian embassy, jules passed out on the lounge (where he has been sleeping for the past two months), and those who were still up and drinking decided to get the hair clippers out. The british police arrested the garbage bag of hair as the staff tried to whisk it out of the embassy

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I've heard his mother on the radio a few timed in the last few weeks. I find her as irritating as her son.

O i cant stand her! she has obviously attended the christine milne school of moaning. I swear she is going to turn up on the next season of dancing with the stars. I love how she thinks that its "not important" that a newspaper editor is currently serving a prison term, for writting a disparaging article about the ecuadorian president. The south american continent's biggest claims to fame are soccer, military junta take-overs, kidnappings of public figures, and an opportunity for a new life for wanted nazi war criminals.

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O i cant stand her! she has obviously attended the christine milne school of moaning. I swear she is going to turn up on the next season of dancing with the stars. I love how she thinks that its "not important" that a newspaper editor is currently serving a prison term, for writting a disparaging article about the ecuadorian president. The south american continent's biggest claims to fame are soccer, military junta take-overs, kidnappings of public figures, and an opportunity for a new life for wanted nazi war criminals.

Correa's presidency is a bit of a mixed bag. He's wiped out a huge chunk of their national debt, employment is growing, and they've seen huge economic growth. So economically at least, he's doing a lot better than his idol Hugo Chavez. But like other governments with pro-Castro leanings, freedom of the press is not something which is very important to Correa's administration.

Thing is, as Latin American presidents go, Correa and Morales aren't all that bad and they really do get the work done. My boyfriend (who is from Latin America, btw) would have loved to have seen a president like Correa in his own country, since all he's known is a revolving door of corrupt, one-term presidents which means government policies keep flip flopping every electoral term, so that the entire country's been in a standstill for the past two decades as any reforms which get passed through are quickly repealed by the next president.

(Bonus points if you can guess which Latin American country)

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(Bonus points if you can guess which Latin American country)

You're going to have to provide a specific clue, all the below information does is narrow it down to one of 13 latin american nations.

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My boyfriend (who is from Latin America, btw) would have loved to have seen a president like Correa in his own country, since all he's known is a revolving door of corrupt, one-term presidents which means government policies keep flip flopping every electoral term

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You're going to have to provide a specific clue, all the below information does is narrow it down to one of 13 latin american nations.

Haha, true. Then two non-consecutive terms.

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O i cant stand her! she has obviously attended the christine milne school of moaning. I swear she is going to turn up on the next season of dancing with the stars. I love how she thinks that its "not important" that a newspaper editor is currently serving a prison term, for writting a disparaging article about the ecuadorian president. The south american continent's biggest claims to fame are soccer, military junta take-overs, kidnappings of public figures, and an opportunity for a new life for wanted nazi war criminals.

I heard her on Friday when the interviewer mentioned that Ecuador wasn't the best place to spend the rest of your life and she answered "You haven't been to Ecuador. It's a paradise". Mmmmmmmkay.

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I swear she is going to turn up on the next season of dancing with the stars

I'd ROFL but you're probably right.

And her partner will be a short man with a paper bag over his head and a slight Ecuadorian accent.