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  • Weird mix of people. I worship Amy and Zizek for completely different reasons. So I'm enjoying this. I'm missing it...

  • I am a little confused propagandhi900

  • Why do birds...Suddenly appear....Everytime- you are near...?

    Just like me- they long to be, close to you....

    Why do Stars, fall down from the sky?

    Everytime, you walk by...?

    Just like me, they long to be- close to you.

  • COMMUNIST SCUM

  • @BostjanAvsec lol

  • its shows how "democratic Amy is. She censored Zizek."

  • @ugforthewin isn't ironic that Assange is accused or rape and yet he is pro-democracy and wants the public informed? 

  • @jgwphilly1969 So, rapists are opposed to "democracy" and releasing information?

    Come off it. Whether he raped someone or not, it has nothing to do with his political views.

  • People attack Assange to deflect attention from the actual videos and information leaked.

  • When does the "debate" start?

  • Julian Assange's biggest wikileak was when his condom broke raping that woman. xD!!

  • @ugforthewin actually they never found any dna of him or that CIA cunt on the condom

  • blah, blah, blah

  • Assange made a breaking point: The right to speak means nothing without a right to know, and to learn. And that is why specifically speaking what is new, what improves the condition of those whom the rulers need to keep in stagnation, is repressed.

  • politic´s = corruption = economy = money = no values = standart and poor´s = speculation = ignorance = lack of identity society = shadow governements= black projects = Private coorporation = theory of facts = global deception ..............................­......................"Im not a human living a espiritual experience!!Im a spirit living a human experience"...................­........... FUCKK U ALL THAT HAVE SELL THE SOUL !!!!!

  • The end is the best: "No one told me about a book signing!"

  • The end is the best: "No one told me about a book signing!"

  • I'm left with the overwhelming feeling that Assange is a bit of an arse.

  • @mightyseagull

    He doesnt have to be your personal saviour to do incredible enlightening and curagious stuff.

  • @shurednichso True.

  • The least we can hope: we learn and get better,

    The best we can hope: we learn and do not repeat our "sins"

  • goddamn could that chick and assange get a little more excited about life at least just a little bit? They feel like snobby and a little too high class mentally,... Zizek is like a happy puppy with a story to tell you and he wants you to feel the emotion of the content of the story, not just a mere "heresay" of laid out factual events.

  • I'm old enough to remember when none of these people would've appeared anywhere in the media. How times have changed.

  • i love slavoj´s evil laugh and hand-rubbing at 57:58 !

  • Slavoj Žižek je res nekaj posebnega lol. 

  • Cool point that Julian makes--its not just that wikileaks gets individual stories out to the people, but that in working with the mainstream press, their reporters have been irreversibly educated about the nature of corruption-- then they can't help but take that wisdom with them to inform their own reporting. And that will help, despite the difficulty of then getting those stories published...as long as the press is hyper concentrated and owned by the super-rich.

  • I think I'm a fairly smart person but I find Zizek's segments incoherent. His anecdotes and examples rarely serve to support any of his points.

  • @jubeidono it's just difficult to connect it into context, he definetly has though

  • @jubeidono He has a bit of an awkward style but he is also a bit out of place here I personally think. But there is this book called "Zizek: a critical introduction" written by a Sarah Kay which tries to distill his thought. I must be honest that I haven't read the complete book, I stopped after 50 pages or so. But that has to do with me, not the book.

  • @jubeidono J.FE. I disagree. In fact, I find Zizek examples not only usefull, but also ingenious.To rely only in information with out form,sometimes is acting with too much confident about peoples understanding and interests.It is reasonable to think that Zizek dont follow certain rules of behaviour.But maybe he has more interest in selling himself and his ideas, as a personal political strategy.It is fair to say he has done a good job. Maybe you are framing him on your personal standards.B.R.

  • Sorry to say, but the "power" people know that there is no physical place as "hell" ergo they have no deterant or moral restraint or (fill in the blank).

  • @mskydolphin If there is no hell, there is no heaven, which to me means that what you do in life is even more important. If you can't blame the devil for evil, and praise god for good, then I would argue that life becomes a lot more real and significant. I know that that's a little simplistic, but I think the point is clear.

  • @HardHouseMusic4Me We are consciousness. You may find the videos by Esther Hicks interesting. (Abraham)

    Love is my goal : )

  • WTFFFFFF I JUST JIZZEDDD, ZIZEK AND ASSANGE!!! :D

  • Listening to a drunken 70 yr old, incapable of speach, is less disctrubing that watching this weirdo "flip flupp, twitching" all over th eplace.

    Fuck me, it feel like its contageous.

    Ive had to swithc him off, man - i cant pick that fuckin habit, up - he' sliek inspecotr friggin gadget, on METH !

  • He wasn't told there was a booksigning, lol. Very refreshing 2 hours, thank you!

  • communists are soo fucking boring!

  • @samanbandana the superego shouts "enjoy!"

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  • Ya its totally sad. What happens in this world if no one is being held accountable for their actions. If someone is reporting the actions of someone else an no one is being hurt or injured then they shouldn't get into trouble. You know how many reporters have died on the job? 1,475. this is a very dangerous thing to do. At the very least it would be nice to have the law stand behind them..

  • I dont care about Julian and I dont care about that kid that leaked that stuff or so they say.. What I care about are those people that committed murder. There were a few people the murdered and killed other people and all everyone is talking about is who were the people who found out about them murders and told others about them. This is total bullshit. By is the attention on these people,. Who cares about them. I want to know what happened to the people the murdered other people.

  • @MizzShady If we don't talk about the people who were jailed for bringing such things to light, other people who have access to similar information might choose to remain silent out of fear or even just indifference.

    In war, hideous, illegal acts happen all the time. It has happened before, and it will happen again. People must be free enough to speak out when they see them, and not be jailed for it.

  • listening to what they are saying and enjoying Slovaj as he is actually a funny guy but makes good valid points and of course Julian is calm, cool an collected and they are not really arguing but finding something useful to say about what the moderator spoke of in the beginning. Sometimes we should just close our eyes and just listen. Amazing what you can pick up. The visual culture we live in remains much to be desired.

  • nice english.... 

  • I just want to be free in this world and be responsible for my actions. We are not free, we are just slaves with the illusion of freedom.

  • @zgnicanka Amy Goodman is perfect for the job.

  • Assange.

  • The World Thanks Mr Julian Asange.

  • i just want free health care in BRITISH columbia, canada.

    i don't unless i'm homeless and a bum

  • So when you are a wise philosopher you can forget about hygiene clothing?

  • He has great charisma as far as I am considered. He is extremely intelligent and measures his words carefully and is precise and forthright.

  • Assange is such a bad speaker, he lacks charisma and just puts forward phrases. Although you can despise Zizek as an intellectual clown, whose popularity rises from making unlikely statements for a person of his portfolio, he has the talent of formulating his dialectics in an entertaining way.

  • @f4ust85 You knoq Assange is such a great speaker. The content of what he says matters more than his charisma, which is also pretty good by the way, and all that happens is that people clown around and try and criticize him for not doing things 'their way'.

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  • This was not a 'debate'. All things said on both side were complimentary to each other. Both are amazing in their own way.

  • This was not a 'debate'. All things said on both side were complimentary to each other.

  • Zizek = all yap yap yap

    Assange = actually uncovered to the people of the world the multitude of secrets that the governments - that the people pay for with their taxes - have kept from them.

    I don't agree with Assange absolute anti-war anti-violence stance, but that doesn't change the incredible net good he has done for the world.

    All other questions and points are worthless irrelevant excrement dredged up by subhuman trolls.

  • @mphello You are uneducated and should read more. It's the "yap yap yap" that matters, Assange didn't change shit. If you actually read Žižek's books you would understand what he's trying to say. It's hard to understand him because you are not knowledgable enough about what he teaches, it's that simple.

  • @S0ulForgeD You are stupid and need to read more.

    If you actually looked at what Assange DID and the crimes he uncovered, then you'd know he has made the FIRST step in a series of MANY necessary steps to force governments to be held accountable to their taxpaying citizens.

  • @mphello I totally agree that Zizek is all yap yap yap. And even a completely tasteless one.

  • Nothing wrong with being a Marxist. All political philosophies have their pros and cons. But extreme fanatic anti-marxists who refuse to look at the pros while cherrypicking only the cons themselves HAVE no pros. Only cons.

  • Couldn't Zizek have at least shown up in a tie and jacket, rather than a ratty t-shirt, to at least attempt an APPEARANCE about caring about whatever the heck he's talking about? This is the one and only one time I'd ever judge a book by its jacket, rather than content, because, Zizek, baby, the words just ain't coming out right.

    I had to shut Zizek off after 10 seconds. He sounds like he's epileptic or something.

  • I love it how Goodman just sits there and does not even pretend to know what is going on the whole time whenever Zizek opens his mouth.

  • Autofav.

  • Wow this makes Assange look really good.

  • @rorycalhoun27 Ha Ha :) When we take over, it will be so easier to eliminate guys like you. :) Quotes like this will make us think no re-education is posible. :P For me as an anticomunist is very hard to say but: gulag's will rise again :P

  • @joedamofu I want to take this as a joke but your overuse of emoticons makes you look stupid rather than sarcastic.

  • /watch?v=Tc58D2qUkew 

  • Oh my god, smoke a bowl and calm down small man.

  • It is amazing how some of you cannot see the utter hypocrisy and more importantly falsity, the accusation that Assange has blood on his hands. And coming from some of you, the Pentagon, corporate media, corporate/military complex which has cheered on, aided and abetted or directly killed hundreds of thousands of innocents in Iraq, Afghanistan , Pakistan et al. Oil to them is more precious than mere earthlings(i.e. the majority of us). May you imperialists burn in hell.

  • @emotionalinvalid I see the hypocrisy and falsity and do my best to shed light on that. Thanks for your comment. It's refreshing to see a sane comment, after some of the delirium and blind hatred this film has attracted.

  • @NOTAMARKinc I am grateful for people like you who upload videos with interesting, compelling, justice seeking and courageous people in those videos. Thank you and you are very welcome.

  • But I need some levity too, i can't be serious all the time.  Setting aside the blind hatred comments, I did have a few laughs at some of the comments on Zizek's eccentricities.

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  • Assange from what I know about "Manning", resisting psychological pressure by refraining to say "The CIA are after me cos assange hacks my emails and uses my copy in his speech" is not the greatest mark of "high moral character" cos as you well know, he wasnt offered a bribe, a honeypot, a job, or even a compliment to test the high values- instead faux-persecution took place- which may make a person unstable if the persecution was successful- but has nothing to do with changing their morality

  • a. Assange is the best simulation actor i have ever seen. He can remember thousands of words of script in conjunction with learnt mannerisms , clearly has an unusually photogenic memory, and appears to use a body heuristic formula of some kind – notice he uses his hands and feet to prompt retrieval from his memory as he goes along. (look @ 11.00- 16.00 , for instance: Feet splay in and out like a dance, thumbs are forefingers are ‘ grabbing’ info from cuffs, collars etc from where

  • b.. theyre stored in his mind map, he even has a standby for interruptions (see the mic interference) which consists of shouting quickly over the top of the interruption as if its not even happening.) I have seen him do this many times in interviews. Whilst genuine thinkers and teachers don’t welcome intrusions, they are still able to break off - changing the subject to acknowledge the interruption and interruptor if need be—and are then able to resume their place in their

  • c...thought process once the intrusion has subsided. They can also respond plausibly to spontaneous questions that are slightly off the beaten track and yet still connect to the field, without freezing like Assange does- and giving a stock answer that does not reply to the nature of the spontaneous question. But assange cant do any of this—- not even for a second—cos any break to the flow of his heuristic model will cause him to immediately

  • d....lose his place in his carefully constructed retrieval system. Its more evidence-if any was needed- that assange is just a frontman and an actor - a genius in retrieval may be, especially useful for mimicking and sending up real dissidents perhaps- but hardly the genius in intellectual capacities that he is made out to be. If he was an academic, hed be in education, wouldnt he?

  • @eclecticfire73 Ok, I checked what you do on your profile and respect to you. However ... what are you expertise in reading people like this? The thing is, if you're that busy watching his legs move when he talks, his hands, his face or the way his nose wiggles, you're not really paying attention to what he is saying. You know why? Coz he really ISN'T that charismatic and on some level that bothers you. A guy like this should inspire awe ... yet he doesn't. That must mean he's a CIA agent.

  • @ 2.50..the lady drops her file , the Zizek guy tries to be helpful, and the sociopathic assange, with no empathy, doesnt even register---looney.

  • Suddenly capt vaughan is a co-founder when he thinks mentioning his wife might give him a bit of respectability.

    THis idea was copied off the concept of Annabels, anyway.

    Its been done.

    As if this warlord discusses his Business with his colleagues on an open busy High Street near Paddington Central Station and opposite the Praed Street Sex Clinic for women who work in the sex industry.

    Absurd individual.

  • @15.30 "I like to go from the small to the large not just by abstraction or analogy but by encompassing all of 'it' together and then trying to abstract through mathematics and statistics to push both of these things at the same time- the individual relationship, plus the state relationship plus the relationship that has to do with civilastion as a whole.."

  • Assange, i thought you said you had a degree,in a scientific field? Id consider rephrasing 90% of what you say-- you sound silly. How about "I like to do statistical analysis on data so I can draw some sociological conclusions". Sort of A level standard really. I know youre trying to impress the educated MR Zizek, but if he has a PhD in philosophy or science, Im sure he's quite aware of how the methodology of research works...and your point was...? (!!)

  • Ive got a good question, Why were only US embassy Cables hacked- and no other agencies belonging to any other countrys in the world?

    America, fine, by why not any others- if the hacking capacity was so great...why not, Israel, British embassies, Russia, China or France? Just a thought.

    And secondly, if he has released about 250,000 so far, and 140,000 this weekend, would that not be the entire archive of say the past ten years or so?

  • Surely there are not about half a milllion docs written to the state department in a few years?

    Even if they were, whats pasting them on the internt supposed to prove-- that nobody can keep anything a secret from America?

    Dont think this has helped US-World relations one jot- not even in the way they think it has..

    Its terrible to think that the people who call Julia Gillard a C**t & a B**ch on youtube, are probably the very same people writing these wiki cables.

    Charming behaviour.

  • @eclecticfire73 Why do you believe that Assange's organization hacked only US embassy cables? What do you think his MO is? You're comments on this thread are, by the way, interesting - especially your analysis of Assange's behavior. It is a good question, like you said, but I'd like to know what your conclusions are.

  • @smileyfacemug Well why is an anti war hero living with a Captain of the army? Its one of those great philosophical conundrums of modern times.

  • can someone explain the "cafe with cream" metaphor?

  • @smileyfacemug Assange has worked in the general fields of dissemination and distribution of information, political dissent and subversion through electronic means, and electronic and political activism, since the early 90s. He's more than qualified to be on this stage, and his professional, refined views are relevant to the discussion.

    It's sad to see this kind of irreverent and misled hyperbole coming from someone watching this kind of video.

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  • @candorist I like how you can't distinguish the fact between real issues and opinions and then claim that you are smarter than someone else in incoherent sentences. Bravo.

  • oi Vaughan... GET ON WITH IT!!!

  • @candorist Oh, and lol at the "If you don't understand the significance of abstract thought and philosophy - just admit it - you're not that guy. But please, by all means, don't act as if you're smarter.".

  • @candorist Are you kidding me? No, this discussion doesn't rely on opinion. Its obvious what are real issues being presented. For example, Assange mentioned how his cables are changing mainstream journalism, because it reaches the journalist who work for big media outlets and they journalists have to read the cables, changing their view, and ultimately changing how they publish their materials. Zizek then then talks about liberals, jack bower from 24, and then marxists and conservatives.

  • Why is this Albino creep not in prison yet?

  • @TheGoldenKing20 Because he hasn't broken any law in any of the jurisdictions in question that could legally land him in prison.

  • @TheGoldenKing20 he hasnt been charged with anything- and the Swedish Pm said its doubtful that he would be extradited in order to be charged.

    they all got plenty of mileage out of it though .

  • ~ • HAPPY HAPPY BiRTHDAY • ~

    Mr. Julian Assange

    ViVE W i K i L E A K S

    ~ • ~

  • The problem was,they attempt to traffik women who have no ties but they made a mistake in one case & discovered the victim who had survived had close ties to various people (including family members that they either knew nothing about or had not thought of as counting for much obstacle).A lot with the wikileaks vehicle,

  • & Julian Assange's speeches,are about "thinking aloud" various of captain69's concerns & dilemmas & solutions so as they are not toppled. I can tell the name of the dissident if anyone is interested.

  • The bit about the grandma is that captain69 went to every single relative of the "dissident" and threatened them if they provided any support to the "dissident" they would be punished with their life, their home, the lives of remaining children and so on.

  • reading amy goodman's body language, she shows zero interest in what žižek has to say, all her focus on julian.

    it's impolite and disrespectful. what a disappointment.

  •  . If you listen to Assange properly he's not actually saying anything coherent. He strings unrelated clauses together-- thats about it. he works for a security company who pinch phrases and then string them together , thats why it is not flowing. He also has trouble remembering. The whole schtick was to prove to the upper classes that theyre "dissident" muse is 'not coherent' by saying he is paraphrasing the dissident word for word as well as adding their own "security talk" speak.

  • @candorist , Assange doesnt know anything- he's just a trapped little twink boy having to perform a few dull scripts for his daddies - a sense of humour requires autonomy for a start . You cant do that when youre giving beejays for a living.

  • @candorist No, when I say real issues, I mean real things are going on right now. Zizek is just commenting on nonsensical ideas. There is a clear distinction as to what is "real issues". If your looking for something funny and entertaining, I suggest you go watch a comedy show. I don't think this video's purpose is to cure cancer.

  • @smileyfacemug

    Think of it as a dialectic between theory and practice.

  • @candorist Are you serious? Were you even paying attention to this video or were you too busy scanning for jokes? Whenever the "filosopher" spoke, he goes off on some tangent rant, blithering about trivial ideas, whereas Assange was speaking on real issues. The "filosopher" did not keep any discussion alive, he merely commented on Assange's words. Assange is the only person really talking in this video.

  • @Flows234 I think you are fundamentally wrong. Interpretation of facts is just as important as facts are, only perhaps a step forward towards a better understanding. I highly enjoyed Zizek's commentaries.

  • @eydos If you need someone else to express their opinion to help you make your own opinion, then so be it.

  • ''We're a "social enterprise"  " .lol. Thats one way of putting it. : \

  • God are you sock puppets still rabbitting on?

    As for the captain Vaughan and dans great wall picture, Youve been getting your artist to do the same wall picture for ten years now...dont you ever get sick of doing the same picture?

  • @Dupedin2Madness It might not make a difference to you. But for say, an arab, who can read about what's really going on in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, WikiLeaks is meaningful. I know a politician who admits it's significant, even if they are just leads to the bigger picture. I don't think it's dumb at all, I think if you're too materialistic about the whole thing then you won't see the point.

  • Wow, man, I can't get over the way the guy on the left, waves his arms around, scratches his face, touches his head, tickles belly, wipes his nose, and picks his ears, all in about 3 seconds !

    Then he starts again !

    I thought he was doing sign language, at first, then i realised - he's not !

  • @AnnoyingTypoSyndrome I quite liked the animated photo of Lenin...

  • @AnnoyingTypoSyndrome omg so true!

  • @AnnoyingTypoSyndrome cocaine is one hell of a drug

  • @AnnoyingTypoSyndrome It's a tick. He can't help it.

  • @AnnoyingTypoSyndrome

    Thats our crazy Zizek :D

  • @AnnoyingTypoSyndrome slavoj is really a smart guy... almost every big mind has it's own weird thing that described him... ;)

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  • @MSavioni:

    NO !

    He's a frieking friek !

    Perhaps he's speaking absolute sense, but he's still got too much of the mad professor about him - SIMPLE !

  • @AnnoyingTypoSyndrome He is a genius, the nervous ticks are irrelevant to the argument.

  • @MSavioni:

    Oh, right. Is he a REGISTERED genius ? Does he have a MENSA pass ? What is his pecialist genius area ? Annoying body movements ? Or disturning people's minds, using only your "whoop, yim yuuuuurp, flupp flupp" ? 

    Did you study with him, and wash his clothes, and brush his hair, and lick his twitching backsdie ? Is that how you now he's a genius ?

    And if he's such a genius, why cant he sit fucking still and speak liek a human, instead of a monkey with too much medicine ?

  • great quality

  • These really are just bourgeois radicals repeating the same shit they've been repeating for almost three hundred years now. Democracy is an empty game. The choice now is between a true technocracy or the continuation of the neoliberal nightmare, chaos, collapse, and species death.

  • @MrVoulezvous No other way to survive the tragedy of the commons -> war, plague, famine, etc.

  • @MrVoulezvous You sound exactly like your first sentence.

  • @MrVoulezvous Zizek would agree to a certain extent, he is very much against a democracy, read some of his more philosophical writings and you will understand.

  • Thank you for this amazing upload.

  • IT IS SO AWESOME TO SEE JULIAN STILL GOING STRONG!!!

  • Yo! I fast-forwarded past all the Branding talk by both entities! Just so you know I couldn't give a flying fuck about your Brands!

  • I got Living in the End Times the other day from the book store. Seriously hard to read - so many big words.

  • 1.03.00 i wonder if he was saying he has been told he will be killed if he releases thos documents? like they made it quite clear that it WOULD happen if he/wikileaks released them?

  • 1st Amendment, 3rd Amendment, uuhhh 5th Amendment... haha I knew sooner or later he'd get it.

  • 11 people are dumb beyond help

  • No disrespect to Slavoj Zizek on my part! It just strikes me how bad he wants to underpin what Julian Assange puts forward...

  • I've found it hard to take Zizek seriously since I read a passage by Lacan, arguing that the male penis was equal to the square root of -1. Because you know, the libido is irrational. Or was this some kind of joke? I dunno. Either it's funny, or irritating - I can't decide which.

  • Also… LOLZ at Assange and Goodman’s reactions to Žižek’s joke at 45:00 !

  • Žižek is great, although contradictory, and makes some brilliant insights. However, his use of terrorism, and this goes back to his book about Violence and the use of violence, conflates actual violence/terrorism with the harms and wrongs of capitalist societies. If you call all of it violence or terrorism then you do not differentiate between violence/terrorism which gets you killed, and the System which you can (technically) change through nonviolent, political means.

  • what did žižek wish him at the end? i didnt hear :(

  • Actual talk begins at 10:20

  • Would somebody tell me please what happens around 24:14? I can't get what the out-field voice says, thank you.

  • I think there is something fucked up in your value system if you have a neckbeard. SORRY.

  • The bearded dude calling Assange an idiot really went overboard.

  • @szwedzkiPL "The bearded dude" Seriously? SERIOUSLY?

  • @szwedzkiPL I would think he thinks of everyone as an idiot until proven wrong. It comes with the territory of being a brilliant philosopher. He's just honest about it.

  • If this debate was a public enemy  consert then Asange would be Chuck D and Zizek Flava flav. :)

  • Right off,

    Give the people comfortable chairs!

    Protect Julian Assange !

    Love him, or hate him if he goes to the US

    He's dead!

    By all means unnecessary keep the that man out of the

    United States of America! 

  • i dont get how in this day and age a man can be treated the way hes treated... house arrest on a mickey mouse charge with no evidence??? just goes to show how pissed off people in power are that he let the people know whats really going on....

  • 45:00 Watch like Goodman and Assange try to contain their disgust at Zizek's joke.

  • So great. Well worth watching every minute.

  • You can tell Zizek is incredible intelligent by his shortfalls in fashion.

  • "Rise up like loins after slumber.

    Shake off your chains to earth dew,

    ...which in your sleep had fallen on you.

    YE are many, They are Few"-percy shelley.

    Belated Happy Birthday, my Hero,NamastE!

  • that Slovenian guy is so fidgitty

  • Viva Julian Assange! Viva Wikileaks!