Re: Gillard needs to wake up. And some more interesting twists and turns to this .....
Have you ever read the book "Future Shock" by Alvin Toffler, it was an excellent book about the information overload that we now see today, (it was written in the late 60s-early 70s), and he was correct in his assessment of how people would be over-whelmed by the sheer amount of information, and this would lead to illness, such as
Depression and anxiety.
These days we do need to be discerning about what we read, and where the information comes from. Sometimes I think we all have to be detectives, and sort out the truth from the lies.
The government and corporate agenda, behind the treatment of Julian Assange is pretty obvious, when you look past the manufactured outrage. People should know what their governments are up to, there should be no secrets and no "classified" information. It is the people, not the politicians, that are being sent to fight the wars, on the basis of lies, and the people that are being killed.
There is a change of energy in the world, and in the people of the world, the old guard are dying out, because they can't adapt to a more open and less oppressive society. I'm optimistic that this will bring peace to our world.
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