Wikileaks Director & Assange Mentor Gavin McFadyen Dies, Saturday 22nd Oct 2016

[Ba-ba-Ra]

Don't know if he was ill, but seems like strange timing based on all the rumors surrounding Assange.

http://youtube.com/user/DAHBOO77


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCAw4MAL3JA

[Carmody]

Interesting that.... if one searches GOOGLE...for this key word set : "Gavin McFadyen"...the only thing returned from the search.... is about a drug dealer, all the way back to 2012 and 2010..

One has to ADD in the word 'wikileaks'

Go ahead. try it.

You'll get a chance to catch and directly see Google -- in the the act of their 'control of information' search engine programming.

According to google, the man... his history, his acts, his connections, and his reputation....none of that exists....... unless you force it.

[Hervé]

WikiLeaks director & Assange’s mentor Gavin MacFadyen dies (https://www.rt.com/usa/363793-gavin-macfadyen-dies-wikileaks/)

Published time: 23 Oct, 2016 08:32
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WikiLeaks director and founder of the Centre for Investigative Journalism Gavin MacFadyen has died at age 76. The cause of death is yet unknown. His ‘fellows in arms’ have flocked online to post their farewells, including WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange.

“We are extremely sad to announce the death of Gavin MacFadyen, CIJ’s Founder, Director and its leading light,” the Centre for Investigative Journalism team wrote on its Twitter.

MacFadyen was a pioneering investigative journalist and filmmaker, who back in 2003 founded the Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ), an organization that helped break several major stories and has trained a number of prominent journalists.

He was a mentor and friend to famous whistleblower and co-founder of WikiLeaks Julian Assange, as well as the director of the publication. Paying tribute to their head, WikiLeaks published a post on the group’s Twitter account saying MacFadyen “now takes his fists and his fight to battle God.”

The post is signed “JA,” indicating that the phrase belongs directly to Julian Assange, with WikiLeaks claiming that, despite the whistleblower being deprived (https://www.rt.com/uk/363673-mair-assange-embassy-internet/) of internet access in his suite in the Ecuadorian embassy for a week now, he has been able to contact them and is “still in full command.”

The CIJ team also published an address from MacFadyen’s wife and member of Julian Assange’s Defense Fund, Susan Benn, who described her husband as a “larger-than-life person,” with gratitude and respect.

“He was the model of what a journalist should be… He spearheaded the creation of a journalistic landscape which has irrevocably lifted the bar for ethical and hard-hitting reporting. Gavin worked tirelessly to hold power to account.

“His life and how he lived it were completely in sync with the principles that he held dear and practiced as a journalist and educator – to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable,” Benn wrote (http://tcij.org/gavin-macfadyen).

Recounting her husband’s achievements, she said he had produced and directed more than 50 investigative documentaries covering diverse and multiple countries and problems. She also noted that he had been banned from apartheid South Africa and the Soviet Union for his investigative work, and was also attacked by British Neo-Nazis.

In his professional career, MacFadyen shed light on topics like child labor, pollution, the torture of political prisoners, neo-Nazis in Britain, UK industrial accidents, Contra murders in Nicaragua, the CIA, maritime piracy, election fraud in South America, South African mines, as well as many others. He worked on investigative television programs for PBS’s Frontline, Granada Television’s World in Action, the BBC’s Fine Cut, Panorama, The Money Programme, and 24 Hours, as well as Channel 4’s Dispatches.

The cause of MacFadyen’s death has not yet been made public. In the original post from his wife Susan, she wrote that he had died from “a short illness,” but that line has now been removed.

Twitter has been full of tributes from his colleagues and like-minded people. Even the hacktivist organization Anonymous has spoken out.

Earlier this year, MacFadyen gave an interview to RT’s Going Underground program to talk about the publication of leaks related to US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, the most recent of which have been emails from the account of her aid, John Podesta. The barrage of sometimes shocking revelations has proven to be a bit of a thorn in the side for Clinton’s election campaign. In the interview, he said that the documents released so far are merely a drop in the ocean of the information WikiLeaks is receiving, and was hopeful that while “there’s only one known Snowden,” there may be other whistleblowers who will keep shedding light on injustice and other major global pain points.


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Gavin MacFadyen (http://tcij.org/gavin-macfadyen)

Saturday 22nd October, 18:30
We are extremely sad to announce the death of Gavin MacFadyen, CIJ’s Founder, Director and its leading light. Gavin died of lung cancer surrounded by loved ones in London on Saturday 22nd Oct 2016.

[Flash]

I bet anything that he was rhe second in comnand to release info on Clinton when Assange could'nt anymore. Hopefully wikileak has a fourth, fifth and sixth hand. (The dead lawyer may have been one releaser too, or at minimum in the know for inter connecting those able to release). I still believe Assange may be dead.

[Althena]

I think he was most definitely one of Assange's "dead man's switch". Clinton's murder list keeps on growing.

[bettye198]

Isn't Assange holed up in an Ecuadorian embassy?

[ThePythonicCow]

Isn't Assange holed up in an Ecuadorian embassy?

So far as I can tell, we don't know where Assange is anymore, nor whether he's alive or not. If I am remembering correctly, Wikileaks announced yesterday that he was still alive. But we have no way to verify that.

[Justplain]

Julian Assuange is still alive. He was interviewed by Michael Moore two days ago:

https://m.youtube.com/results?q=michael%20moore%20julian%20assange&sm=1

I tried embedding the youtube but it kept getting erased.

[neutronstar]

Interesting that.... if one searches GOOGLE...for this key word set : "Gavin McFadyen"...the only thing returned from the search.... is about a drug dealer, all the way back to 2012 and 2010..

One has to ADD in the word 'wikileaks'

Go ahead. try it.

You'll get a chance to catch and directly see Google -- in the the act of their 'control of information' search engine programming.

According to google, the man... his history, his acts, his connections, and his reputation....none of that exists....... unless you force it.

No I got him. Google searches are based on your search history. What I get and what you get or anybody else gets will be different.

Actually your search history is just one of probably many different ways your searches yield what they do.

[ThePythonicCow]

Julian Assuange is still alive. He was interviewed by Michael Moore two days ago:
At least as of the time I post this, Michael Moore's video, filmed in front of the Ecuadorian embassy in London, can be found here:
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If one believes Moore, then yes, Assange is alive and still in the embassy.

[onawah]

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[hohoemi]

Interesting that.... if one searches GOOGLE...for this key word set : "Gavin McFadyen"...the only thing returned from the search.... is about a drug dealer, all the way back to 2012 and 2010..

One has to ADD in the word 'wikileaks'

Go ahead. try it.

You'll get a chance to catch and directly see Google -- in the the act of their 'control of information' search engine programming.

According to google, the man... his history, his acts, his connections, and his reputation....none of that exists....... unless you force it.

No I got him. Google searches are based on your search history. What I get and what you get or anybody else gets will be different.

Actually your search history is just one of probably many different ways your searches yield what they do.

Yeah, I get 2 Wikileaks results on page 1 too: the 3rd result listed is from projectavalon, 9th from newzsentinel.com.
However, it should probably be much more than that, given that it's more current and relevant news than the drug dealer in the other links...

[Justplain]

Hi Paul, is there any reason to doubt Michael Moore's word, here in particular, or in general?

[ThePythonicCow]

Hi Paul, is there any reason to doubt Michael Moore's word, here in particular, or in general?

I have a small reason to doubt his word, and no reason to trust it. My small reason is that he's a minor celebrity, so there's increased risk that he's speaking a line, not simply speaking honestly.

[sandy]

From what I read and understand about Moore and this interview with Assange >>>>>it was in June of this year not a few days ago ?



Julian Assuange is still alive. He was interviewed by Michael Moore two days ago:
At least as of the time I post this, Michael Moore's video, filmed in front of the Ecuadorian embassy in London, can be found here:
T8mtuBGjV2k
If one believes Moore, then yes, Assange is alive and still in the embassy.

[ThePythonicCow]

From what I read and understand about Moore and this interview with Assange >>>>>it was in June of this year not a few days ago ?
Good catch - once again we get caught by someone uploading old material to Youtube, with no clue that it isn't new.

Here's a report of Michael Moore's June 2016 visit with Julian Assange: Film-maker Michael Moore visits WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at embassy (DailyRecord.co.uk) (http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/film-maker-michael-moore-visits-8157426):

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Film-maker Michael Moore visits WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at embassy

15:32, 10 Jun 2016 -- Updated 15:32, 10 Jun 2016 -- By Alan Jones

THE award winning film maker took time out of his promotional tour for his new film, Where To Invade Next, to visit Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy in London.


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Oscar-winning documentary film-maker Michael Moore meeting WikiLeaks
founder Julian Assange inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London.

OSCAR-winning documentary film-maker Michael Moore has taken time out from promoting his new film to meet WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange .

The American has been a supporter of Mr Assange for years but they had never met in person.

Moore paid a visit to the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where Mr Assange is living as he seeks to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning over a sex allegation , which he has always denied.
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Thanks, Sandy!

[Frankie Pancakes]

As they say a picture is worth a thousand words or maybe an appearance at the window. Might just put rumors to rest. So many days without this to me imply he is under arrest and hauled off or has been Arkancided. Jim Stone believes McFadyen was poisoned. Wiki could be compromised. Interesting times we are in indeed.

[4evrneo]

This was apparently a speech at the Ecuadorian embassy the day before Gavin McFadyen died. 6_bVVAVwfSQ

(Looks like its also an old video) Sorry!