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Nick Davies is a British investigative journalist, writer and documentary maker.
Davies has written extensively as a freelancer, as well as for The Guardian and The Observer, and been named Reporter of the Year Journalist of the Year and Feature Writer of the Year at the British Press Awards. He was the winner of the first Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism in 1999.
Davies has made documentaries for ITV's World in Action, and written numerous books on the subject of politics and journalism, including Flat Earth News, which attracted considerable controversy as an exposé of journalistic malpractice in the UK and across the globe. As a reporter for The Guardian, Davies was responsible for uncovering the News of the World phone hacking affair, including the July 2011 revelations of hacking into the mobile phone voicemail of the murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler, for which he received the Paul Foot Award 2011.
Davies gained a PPE degree from Oxford University in 1974, and started his journalism career in 1976, working as a trainee for The Mirror Group in Plymouth. He then moved to London initially to work for the Sunday People and spent a year working for The Evening Standard before becoming a news reporter at The Guardian in July 1979. Since then he has worked as home affairs correspondent at The Observer; chief feature writer at London Daily News in 1986 and on-screen reporter for World in Action. After the London Daily News folded he moved to the USA for a year, where he wrote White Lies, about the wrongful conviction of black janitor, Clarence Brandley, for the murder of a white girl. Since 1989 Davies has been a freelance reporter for The Guardian, for which he continues to contribute articles as of 2009, working from his home in Lewes.
Julian Paul Assange ( /əˈsɒnʒ/ ə-SONZH; born 3 July 1971) is an Australian computer programmer, political/internet activist, publisher, and journalist. He is best known as the editor in chief and founder of WikiLeaks, a media website which publishes information from whistleblowers. The site acts as a conduit for worldwide news leaks, with a stated purpose of creating open governance.
WikiLeaks has published material about extrajudicial killings in Kenya, toxic waste dumping in Côte d'Ivoire, Church of Scientology manuals, Guantanamo Bay procedures, and banks such as Kaupthing and Julius Baer. In 2010, WikiLeaks published Iraq War documents and Afghan War documents about American involvement in the wars, some of which was classified material. On 28 November 2010, WikiLeaks and its five international print media partners (Der Spiegel, The New York Times, Le Monde, The Guardian and El País) began publishing U.S. diplomatic cables.
Assange was a hacker-activist in his youth, before becoming a computer programmer and then becoming internationally renowned for his work with WikiLeaks. He has lived in several countries and has made public appearances in many parts of the world to speak about freedom of the press, censorship, and investigative journalism. He has received numerous awards and nominations, including the 2009 Amnesty International Media Award, Readers' Choice for TIME magazine's 2010 Person of the Year, the 2011 Sydney Peace Foundation gold medal and the 2011 Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism.Snorre Valen, a Norwegian parliamentarian, nominated him for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize.
Actors: Laura Linney (actress), Edgar Selge (actor), Lisa Kreuzer (actress), Alexander Beyer (actor), Axel Milberg (actor), David Thewlis (actor), Stanley Tucci (actor), Anatole Taubman (actor), Daniel Brühl (actor), Peter Capaldi (actor), Benedict Cumberbatch (actor), Anthony Mackie (actor), Moritz Bleibtreu (actor), Steve Golin (producer), Carice van Houten (actress),
Plot: The story begins as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and his colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Daniel Brühl) team up to become underground watchdogs of the privileged and powerful. On a shoestring, they create a platform that allows whistle-blowers to anonymously leak covert data, shining a light on the dark recesses of government secrets and corporate crimes. Soon, they are breaking more hard news than the world's most legendary media organizations combined. But when Assange and Berg gain access to the biggest trove of confidential intelligence documents in U.S. history, they battle each other and a defining question of our time: what are the costs of keeping secrets in a free society-and what are the costs of exposing them?
Keywords: borderline-personality-disorder, box-office-flop, internet, journalism, number-in-title, reference-to-oscar-wilde, wikileaksActors: David Suchet (actor), Patricia Hodge (actress), Adrian Scarborough (actor), Geoffrey Hutchings (actor), Joanna Scanlan (actress), Nick Mirsky (producer), Joel Holmes (miscellaneous crew), Hilary Salmon (producer), Dan Stevens (actor), Tim Wallers (actor), Mark Thornton (editor), Philip Fox (actor), Mark Lockyer (actor), Ben Caplan (actor), Colin Barr (director),
Genres: Biography, Drama,Miss Hip Hop came along and I remember
Like it was yesterday, how could I ever forget her
It was right around the time of the 18th letter
I was wearin a BRONX BOMBER when I NEW YORK MET her
If I had her phone number I'da RANGER
Or sent a couple TEXAS hopin she get the message
Let her know that there's nobody as bad as her
SEATTLE get you focused when you're planning on MARINER
And then came the school days In the park in the dark, like Toronto we BLUE JAYS
Ahh to be a kid again
Just get high and listen to the tribe like the INDIANS
Got more pot from our WHITE SOX
Made a short stop, then we're JIMMY ROLLIN PHILLIES
Then the rhyming started
And you already know, being a FLO-RIDA, MARLIN (I'm all in)
Munchies settin in, so of course you know
If I ran out of cookies, I just BALTIMORE ORIOLES (Bought more Oreos)
You know how the story goes
One word will make the paranoia grow
When somebody says "cops"
Without lookin I'm booking until my feet bleed, Fuckin RED SOX
Runnin like I saw a GREEN MONSTER,
Nosey mother waiting at home to catch me, had to DODGER
So to pass time I combined the sprite with the gin
Mixed in with MINNESOTA like a TWIN
Took it all to the dome
Then I had a BREWER maybe two and MILWAUKEE my ass home
Woke up in the morn', sun shinin on my face like DEVIL RAYS
So I thought I better pray
To ST. LOUIS, consuming all the Dewar's hard gin
Just seemed like a CARDINAL SIN
Cinnatti red bloodshot eyes
Feelin like I just died, I musta had an ANGEL ANAHEIM
Lick maneuver or a liquor remover because I may
Have to explain this puddle of puke to PADRE
So I say, "dad it was hairy as my PITTS
BURGlars and murderers broke in like PIRATES
And they punched me in the stomach
Took my pinky ring, I asked for the DIAMONDBACK but they were hearing nothing of it
And I'm BRAVE like ATLANTA, but these guys were GIANTS and NATS
The reason why I didn't try and attack
Then I guess just from seeing me stressed
He laughed and said, son like CHICAGO, I C.U.B.S.
At that point in my life, the road was ROCKY
Like COLORADO, but I gotta flow that's pretty cocky
Leavin' you stunned and I can't go back,
I've got my mind on my star like an ASTROS cap
Went from being a broke fan
To realizing on a track, I'm more ATHLETIC than OAKLAND
Fitted with A's since the ritalin days I spit it with rage, your just Nicolas Cage
And Nicholas' cage couldn't hold the eye of the TIGER
Like I was from the city of Shady and 5 Niner
Too live for the minors,
Earned many stripes by burnin plenty of mics, see cause I'm a survivor
Avoided more shit than toilet seats
Now I collect ROYAL-tees like I'm loyal to K.C.
This is a warnin track
But not the one in baseball
One that makes the greats all
Like damn
This little motherfucker got it
Started at the bottom