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Edwin "Jay" Mieses, after he was run over by an SUV that police say was being attacked by bikers last Sunday
By Richard Esposito and Tracy Connor, NBC News
An undercover New York police officer was on the scene when a pack of angry motorcycle riders chased down and beat a Range Rover driver in front of his wife and toddler, two law enforcement officials said Friday.
The unidentified cop came forward four days after the harrowing incident ? which was captured on camera and became a viral video that has gotten millions of hits ? and Internal Affairs is investigating.
There is no evidence the officer took part in the assault on driver Alexian Lien, but he also did not assist the victim or call 911, one source said.
The probe of the officer is the latest fallout following Sunday's confrontation, which left one motorcyclist with a crushed spine, another facing charges, and police trying to identify more than a dozen bikers who were involved.
It started when riders gathered for an unauthorized daredevil rally swarmed around Lien's Range Rover on the West Side Highway in New York, resulting in a fender bender.
As some bikers attacked the SUV, Lien sped off, running down a rider who was standing in front of him. After a 50-block chase, the group cornered Lien, smashed in his window with their helmets and beat him, police said.
Gloria Allred, attorney for injured motorcyclist Edwin Mieses, Jr. tells reporters that Mr. Mieses was trying to help the driver of the SUV diffuse the situation, when he was run over.
The rider who was run over, Edwin "Jay" Mieses, was portrayed Friday as an "innocent victim" who was trying to calm tempers and disperse the crowd after the fender bender.
"His sole intention was to defuse the situation," said his family's new high-profile lawyer, Gloria Allred.
At a Manhattan news conference, Allred said Mieses, 32, had his back to the Range Rover and was trying to get fellow bikers to walk away when he was struck "at top speed."
"Watch that huge vehicle, SUV, blast off, and watch it as it is lifted several feet off the ground as it rolls over Edwin Mieses," she said of the video of the incident, which has gotten millions of hits on YouTube.
Allred said she was not justifying the subsequent assault on Lien.
"Edwin Mieses and his family deplore what happened to the driver of the SUV," she said.
"However, let us not lose sight of the fact that Mr. Mieses had done nothing to Mr. Lien," she added. "We don't think our client should have been run over and crushed."
Allred said the family has not decided whether to sue Lien, 33, and is cooperating with the Manhattan District Attorney's office as it investigates the incident.
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Lien's wife, Rosalyn Ng, released a statement Thursday expressing sympathy for Mieses but saying her husband had no choice but to flee the bikers because it was a "life-threatening situation."
"Our fear for our lives was confirmed when the incident ended with the ruthless and brutal attack on my husband, me, and, most importantly, our two-year-old child," Ng said.
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Edwin "Jay" Mieses may be paralyzed after being hit during a clash between bikers and an SUV on the West Side Highway.
Neither Lien nor Mieses have been charged with a crime, and police are still seeking more than a dozen people involved in the incident.
One biker has been arrested -- the rider involved in the minor collision that triggered the confrontation.
Christopher Cruz was?charged with reckless driving and unlawful imprisonment for slowing down in front of Lien's Range Rover as the pack roared down West Side Highway.
When Lien clipped Cruz's back tire, other bikers stopped and some began attacking the SUV with their helmets and slashing its tires, police said.
That's when Lien sped away, hitting Mieses, who suffered a broken spine, torn aortic valve and punctured lung.
?Doctors have indicated they do not know whether or not he will ever walk again,? Allred said. "It's a miracle he survived. He faces a very uncertain future."
The bikers were taking part in a loosely organized unauthorized rally dubbed Hollywood Stuntz, police said. Mieses, an aspiring rapper from Lawrence, Mass., only knew one other rider, said his longtime partner, who defended the two-wheelers.
"They are not gang members. They are not thugs," Dayana Mejia said, tearfully describing her husband as a devoted father of two.
Allred deflected questions about her new client's driving record: he was named a habitual traffic offender in June and his right to drive was revoked until 2017; he does not have a motorcycle license, records show.
She said it was "irrelevant" because even though he drove to and participated in the rally, he was off his bike at the time he was run over. She also upbraided the public for "prejudice" against bikers.
She said the family was seeking justice but when asked what form that would take, she replied, "We'll see."
Mieses' father, a Pennsylvania pastor, said he felt "no anger" toward anyone, including Lien.
"The driver of the SUV is going to eventually have to face what he did," he said.
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This story was originally published on Fri Oct 4, 2013 5:47 PM EDT
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Today, car buyers know how bad the 2014 Toyota Corolla fared in a frontal collision. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety scored the redesigned compact as ?marginal? and went on to describe the body structure as ?poor? and its cabin ?seriously compromised? from the impact. Tomorrow, those same car buyers will continue making the Corolla the world?s best-selling car of all time.
That?s the power of the Toyota name, a brand seemingly invincible to any forces that conspire against its global success. It?s a feeling reflected in the ?Best Global Brands? study by Interbrand, a New York?based ad agency that ranks 100 of what it considers to be the strongest names in business. Among automakers, Toyota was number one, just as it was the best-selling automaker worldwide last year, a spot it continually jockeys with General Motors.
While automotive lists such as Interbrand?s sound special, they don?t tell us anything meaningful that Toyota?or you, for that matter?doesn?t already know. Save for the new Lexus models and the lovely Scion FR-S, most of Toyota?s cars are bland and not particularly innovative. In return, Toyota delivers bulletproof reliability, high resale values, and fair prices that keep customers loyal for life. Their dealers treat customers so well that the company?s sudden acceleration recalls only made the smallest nick on its reputation. Through September, Toyota sold more than 233,000 Corollas?nearly all of which were ancient 2013 models with four-speed automatics. Toyota knows its customers better than anyone.
According to Interbrand, the nameless ?experts? behind its study predict a company?s profit throughout the next five years, calculate RBIs (not runs batted in, but a loosely defined ?Role of Brand Index?), and use another ?proprietary formula? to rate a company?s ?Brand Strength Score.? Stay with us, because even as Volkswagen ramps up production to hit 10 million vehicles by 2018, it ranks below BMW at number five among the 14 automotive and motorcycle manufacturers on the list. Ferrari, a brand so iconic that it rejects customers outright, is number 98 on the whole list. Toyota is number 10 overall, Hyundai is 43, and so on. It proves nothing but an illusion that Interbrand can use to justify high consulting fees.
But Interbrand is hardly alone. Before Pepsi unveiled their latest logo in 2009, the New York?based Arnell Group put out a 27-page document that correlated soda cases in the grocery store to the sun?s gravitational pull and Einstein?s relativity theory. Armed with buzzwords and sans-serif typefaces, most ad agencies actually believe they can reinvent everyone?s business without knowing how they actually run.
We prefer to judge ad agencies, particularly the car commercials, on their work alone. If you haven?t already heard, Toyota?s really popular these days.
Source: http://blog.caranddriver.com/toyota-named-most-valuable-automotive-brand-by-pete-campbell-types/
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The drone, a powerful but controversial weapon against terrorism, is about to take on a new and seemingly inexhaustible enemy: the black salt marsh mosquito.
Seeking a high-tech edge in the daily battle to beat back the swarms, the Florida Keys Mosquito Control District on Monday will begin testing a next-generation drone developed by a small Gainesville robotics company.
The drone, about half the size of the ospreys commonly seen dive-bombing mullet in the Keys, won?t be equipped to spray or blast bugs. Instead, it will be rigged with a thermal camera designed to survey difficult-to-reach mangrove jungles that are the breeding grounds for the marsh mosquito, the most prolific biter in the island chain.
If the bird-size eye in the sky can accurately detect shallow pools where mosquitoes morph from tiny larval worms to buzzing blood-suckers in just days, it could save mosquito fighters time, effort and money, said Michael Doyle, the district?s executive director.
?Our people on the ground have to walk an hour to a marsh and find out what?s there,? he said. ?It?s hard to cover all those places at once. If something like this could allow them to map where the water is, we could move a lot more quickly.?
Whether or not the drone proves to be an effective mosquito-hunter, the pioneering test shows how unmanned aerial vehicles, or UVAs, are quickly evolving. Drones have revolutionized warfare and have been adopted by law enforcement, raising muddy political and privacy questions that are still being sorted out. But they also are being employed for an increasing array of commercial and research uses.
They have helped track poachers in Africa, monitor wildfires in California and capture gases spewing from a volcano in Costa Rica. In coming years, researchers at the University of Florida hope to be able to dispatch squadrons of drones no bigger than paper airplanes to gather data from hurricanes, ice shelves or other extreme locations where manned aircraft can be at risk.
?I would have laughed two years ago if you would have told me this could help with mosquito control,? said Derek Lyons, vice president of sales for Prioria Robotics, a company founded by UF engineering and business students, that builds the Maveric drone being tested in the Keys.
?You put it in people?s hands and it becomes like the iPhone,? he said. ?You have no idea what the applications are going to be once you get it there.?
In the Keys, the potential application is to help the largest and most challenging mosquito-control operation in the state.
Marsh mosquitoes are not public-health threats like Aedes aegypti ? a carrier of dengue fever that readily breeds in developed areas ? but they are the most common annoyance, fast and furious breeders that erupt with every rainstorm or tide change that floods mangrove thickets. The key to controlling them, Doyle said, is directing the district?s helicopters to hit breeding areas with bacteria granules that kill developing larva before they take wing.
Doyle estimated the tactic eliminates about 80 percent of marsh mosquitoes. Those that escape are controlled by spraying, but with increasing restrictions to protect vanishing tropical butterflies, areas for that option are shrinking, he said.
?The noose is kind of tightening in terms of our ability to spray for adults,? he said. ?We have to improve the accuracy of killing them at the larval stage.?
Source: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/08/25/3585872/drone-could-become-mosquito-weapon.html
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BANGKOK (AP) ? Asian stock markets were little changed Monday as traders weighed the consequences of an anticipated phasing out of the U.S. central bank's unprecedented stimulus program.
The Federal Reserve been aggressively buying government bonds to push down interest rates and return employment to normal levels after millions lost jobs in the recession that followed the 2008 financial crisis.
The Fed says the program has helped stimulate the economy by making it easier to buy homes and invest in businesses. The Fed has also said the program is not indefinite and will be phased out when the economy improves.
Recent economic data and public statements by Fed policymakers have led investors to conclude that the Fed will begin winding down its $85 billion a month in bond purchases starting as early as September. Falling bond yields in the U.S is one sign that traders believe the Fed's move is imminent.
But analysts said a sharp increase in the cost of credit could stifle growth, which will make the transition tricky and could make stock markets shaky.
"If it looks like the removal of funding is having too much of an adverse effect on the local economy it (the Fed) will have to step back in; or the more likely scenario, it will extend the timeframe for the complete removal of monetary stimulus," said Evan Lucas of IG in Melbourne, Australia.
Japan's Nikkei 225 index rose 0.1 percent to 13,669.77. South Korea's Kospi fell 0.2 percent to 1,915.60. Hong Kong's Hang Seng declined 0.1 percent to 22,495.74. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 rose 0.2 percent to 5,123.80.
Trading was suspended in the Philippines due to severe flooding. Mainland Chinese shares were mixed. Taiwan and Indonesia fell.
On Friday, the Dow Jones industrial average closed out its worst week of the year. The Dow was dragged lower by a weak performance from retailers and companies sensitive to higher interest rates. The Dow fell 0.2 percent to 15,081.47. The Standard & Poor's 500 dropped 0.3 percent to 1,655.83. The Nasdaq composite fell 0.1 percent to 3,602.78.
Benchmark oil for September delivery was down 10 cents to $107.36 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose 13 cents to $107.46 on the Nymex on Friday.
In currencies, the euro rose to $1.3333 from $1.3319 late Friday. The dollar rose to 97.56 yen from 97.53 yen.
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/asia-stocks-flat-traders-await-next-fed-step-033403551.html
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BANGKOK (AP) ? Expectations that the U.S. Federal Reserve will start to phase out its monetary stimulus had a mostly negative impact on Asian stock markets Friday.
A fall in weekly U.S. jobless claims to a near six-year low Thursday reinforced views that the economy is strong enough to withstand having less extraordinary support from the Fed. The Labor Department reported that weekly claims slid 15,000 last week to 320,000, the lowest level since October 2007.
Analysts said the sharp fall makes it more likely that the Fed will scale back its $85 billion-a-month purchases of government bonds in September. The purchases have helped lower interest rates to spur borrowing and economic growth after the global financial crisis of 2008 sparked a recession.
The stimulus program has been a boon to stocks, into which investors have plowed money in search of investment returns that outpace bonds. Traders have come to view a withdrawal of the Fed program as a negative for stocks even in the face of evidence that the U.S. economy is improving.
Japan's Nikkei 225 index fell 0.4 percent to 13,698.69. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 lost 0.8 percent to 5,111.10. Benchmarks in the Philippines, New Zealand, Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand also fell.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng swung between gains and losses and was marginally lower by midday at 22,519.31.
Mainland Chinese shares surged. The Shanghai Composite Index rose a sharp 5 percent before settling later with a 3.2 percent gain to 2,148.39. The smaller Shenzhen Composite Index gained 1.3 percent to 1,013.60. Taiwanese shares also rose.
Analysts said the movement toward Chinese stocks reflected a diversion of funds toward China from the U.S. While the Fed is expected to tighten its monetary policy, traders suspect China's central bankers might go the other way.
"We have seen some funds coming back to Hong Kong and China," said Kwong Man Bun, chief operating officer at KGI Securities in Hong Kong. "I suspect some funds believe the U.S. stock market is peaking in the short term. The build to the upside will be relatively small, and that is why they switch to markets that are lagging behind, such as Hong Kong and China."
Elsewhere, South Korea's Kospi fell slightly to 1,922.51. South Korean companies that operated various projects in North Korea gained ground Friday after the two Koreas agreed to work toward reopening a jointly run factory park in the North. Hyundai Merchant Marine Co., the largest shareholder in Hyundai Asan Corp., the developer of the Kaesong industrial complex in North Korea, jumped 7.8 percent.
Negative corporate news out of the U.S. also led to frayed nerves. Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, cut its profit and revenue forecasts for 2013. It also reported second-quarter results that missed Wall Street's estimates.
Cisco Systems announced plans to cut 5 percent of its workforce, roughly 4,000 employees, as sales slow. Cisco's announcement led to selling in other technology stocks because the company is regarded as a bellwether for the industry.
The Dow Jones industrial average fell 225 points, or 1.5 percent, to 15,112.19 ? its worst day in nearly two months. The Standard & Poor's 500 index dropped 1.4 percent, to 1,661.32. The Nasdaq composite fell 1.7 percent, to 3,606.12.
Benchmark oil for September delivery was up 6 cents to $107.39 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract fell 48 cents to $107.33 late Thursday in New York.
In currencies, the euro fell slightly to $1.3342 from $1.3349 late Thursday. The dollar rose to 97.70 yen from 97.07 yen.
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AP Business Writer Youkyung Lee contributed from Seoul.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/asia-stocks-mixed-jobs-data-reinforce-fed-shift-051818826.html
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SAN FRANCISCO? - Prosecutors in suburban San Francisco charged a white woman on Wednesday with assaulting a black musician after he dedicated a song to slain teenager Trayvon Martin on the same day a jury reached a verdict in the racially charged case, court documents showed.
Lester Chambers, 73, the former lead singer for the Chambers Brothers, had urged the district attorney for Alameda County to charge Dinalynn Andrews-Potter, 43, with a hate crime for shoving him down while he was performing a peace-seeking spiritual at a blues festival on July 13.
The disturbance, captured on video, happened the same day a Florida jury acquitted George Zimmerman in the shooting death of the unarmed black teenager in a verdict that spurred nationwide protests.
Video of the performance shows Chambers singing into the microphone with a band backing him up when a woman rushed to the stage, jumped up and shoved him so forcefully that he fell backward into sound equipment.
The Alameda County district attorney found no evidence of racial animus and charged Andrews-Potter, who retired from the U.S. Navy and says she suffers post-traumatic stress, with felony assault and elder abuse in connection with the incident in the San Francisco suburb of Hayward, court documents showed.
Police arrested Andrews-Potter right after the incident and subsequently released her, and a warrant was issued for her arrest on Wednesday. It was not immediately known if she had retained a lawyer in the case and attempts to reach her for comment were unsuccessful.
?I certainly wanted her charged for an assault and hate crime because that?s what it was,? Chambers told Reuters in a telephone interview from his northern California home.
?She got right up into my face on stage with a microphone in my hand asking God to change this violent world we live in from hate to love,? he said.
Chambers, best known for the hit song ?Time Has Come Today,? said the shoving left him so battered and bruised he was unable to walk off the outdoor stage. Paramedics put him on a stretcher and transported him to a hospital.
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By Michael Snyder, on July 15th, 2013 
A fundamental shift is taking place in the U.S. economy.? In fact, this transition is rapidly picking up momentum and is in danger of becoming an avalanche.? The percentage of full-time jobs in our economy is steadily declining and the percentage of part-time jobs is steadily increasing.? This is not a recent phenomenon, but now there are several factors which are accelerating this trend.? One of them is Obamacare.? The truth is that Obamacare actually gives business owners incentive to cut hours and turn full-time workers into part-time workers, and according to the Wall Street Journal and other prominent publications this is already happening all over the United States.? Perhaps this is part of the reasons why the U.S. economy actually lost 240,000 full-time jobs last month.
In a recent article entitled "Restaurant Shift: Sorry, Just Part-Time", the Wall Street Journal explained the choices that employers are faced with thanks to Obamacare...
The Affordable Care Act requires employers with 50 or more full-time equivalent workers to offer affordable insurance to employees working 30 or more hours a week or face fines. Some companies have said the requirement could increase their costs significantly, although others have played down the potential hit.
The cost for small firms to comply with the health law will depend largely on the number of additional full-time employees that sign up for employer-sponsored coverage. Average annual premiums for employer-sponsored health insurance in 2012 were $5,615 for single coverage and $15,745 for family coverage, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. That is up from $3,083 and $8,003, respectively, in 2002.
Thankfully the implementation of this aspect of Obamacare was recently delayed, but a lot of employers are saying that it won't make a difference.? They know that it is coming at some point, and so they are already making the changes that they feel they will need to make in order to comply with the law...
Restaurant owners who have already begun shifting to part-time workers say they will continue that pattern.
"Does the delay change anything for us? Absolutely not," Mr. Adams of Subway said, explaining that whether his health-care costs go up next year or in 2015, he will have to comply with the law. "We won't start hiring full-time people."
This is very sad, because we have already been witnessing a steady erosion of "breadwinner jobs" in this country.
It is very, very difficult to support a family if you just have a part-time job or a temp job.? But those are the jobs that our economy is producing these days.
In fact, if you can believe it, the second largest employer in the United States is now a temp agency.? Kelly Services is actually the second largest employer in the country after Wal-Mart.
Isn't that crazy?
And full-time employment continues to lag far, far behind part-time employment.? The number of part-time workers in the United States recently hit a brand new all-time record high, but the number of full-time workers remains nearly 6 million below the old record that was set back in 2007.
For much more on this, please see my previous article entitled "15 Signs That The Quality Of Jobs In America Is Going Downhill Really Fast".
At this point, employees are increasingly considered to be expendable "liabilities" that can be dumped the moment that their usefulness is over.
For example, employees at one restaurant down in Florida were recently fired by text message...
It's bad enough losing your job, but more than a dozen angry employees say they were fired from a central Florida restaurant via text message.
Employees at Barducci's Italian Bistro said they lost their jobs without notice after the restaurant suddenly closed and are still waiting for their paychecks.
This shift that we are witnessing is fundamentally changing the relationship between employers and employees in the United States.? The balance of power has moved very much toward the employers.
Most employers realize that there is intense competition for most jobs these days.? If you get tired of your job, your employer can easily go out and find a whole bunch of other people who would be thrilled to fill it.
So why has the balance of power shifted so dramatically?
Well, for one thing we have allowed millions upon millions of good paying jobs to be shipped out of the country.? Now American workers literally have to compete for jobs with workers on the other side of the planet that live in nations where it is legal to pay slave labor wages.
This should have never happened, but voters in both major political parties kept voting for politicians that were doing this to us.
Now we all pay the price.
Another factor is the rapid advancement of technology.
These days, businesses are trying use machines, computers and robots to automate just about everything that they can.? The following example comes from a recent Business Insider article...
On a windy morning in California's Salinas Valley, a tractor pulled a wheeled, metal contraption over rows of budding iceberg lettuce plants. Engineers from Silicon Valley tinkered with the software on a laptop to ensure the machine was eliminating the right leafy buds.
The engineers were testing the Lettuce Bot, a machine that can "thin" a field of lettuce in the time it takes about 20 workers to do the job by hand.
The thinner is part of a new generation of machines that target the last frontier of agricultural mechanization ? fruits and vegetables destined for the fresh market, not processing, which have thus far resisted mechanization because they're sensitive to bruising.
So what happens when the big corporations that dominate our economy are able to automate everything?
What will the rest of us do?
How will the middle class survive if they don't need us to work for them?
Over the past couple of centuries, we have witnessed several fundamental shifts in our economy.
Once upon a time, a very high percentage of Americans worked for themselves.? There were millions of farmers, ranchers, small store owners, etc.
But then the industrial revolution kicked in to high gear and big corporations started to gain more power.? Millions of Americans went to work for these big corporations, but it was okay because they paid us good wages to work in their factories and the middle class thrived.
Unfortunately, the big corporations have realized that things have changed and that they don't really need us anymore.? They can replace us with technology or with super cheap labor overseas.
So that leaves the rest of us in quite a quandry.? Very few of us own our own businesses.? In fact, the percentage of self-employed workers in the United States is at an all-time record low.? And the number of us that are needed by the monolithic corporations that dominate our system is dropping by the day.
All of this is very bad news for the middle class.? The only thing that most of us have to offer is our labor, and the value of our labor is continually declining.
Unless something dramatic happens, the future of the middle class looks very bleak.
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Apple is on a hiring spree right now, trying to find engineers who can help troubleshoot problems its having with its first wearable gadget, the so-called iWatch.
The news?comes from Financial Times reporter Tim Bradshaw, who spoke to several sources familiar with Apple's plans for the iWatch.
Here's what Bradshaw's sources are telling him about the iWatch's development:
The company has begun hiring "aggressively" for the project in recent weeks, say people familiar with Apple's plans for the wearable device, a move that shows it has stepped up development but which raises questions over the ability of its own engineers to develop wearable technology.
The report goes on to say that assuming Apple doesn't scrap the project, the iWatch probably won't launch until the end of 2014.
Speaking of hiring,?Apple recently poached Paul Deneve, the former CEO of fashion house Yves Saint Laurent, as a vice president working on "special projects." Deneve reports directly to Apple CEO Tim Cook. The hire caused many to speculate that Deneve was brought on to help market wearable technology once Apple does release a product in the category.
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This thorough, engrossing film shows how idealistic Aussie hacker Julian Assange took on the might of the US, exposing their military and diplomatic misconduct, then allowed his own murky personal life to tarnish his credibility.
Sometimes it takes a feature-length documentary to stitch together a story we think we already know.
A real-life cyber-thriller with real-life consequences, Alex Gibney's We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks is a riveting and revelatory documentary ...
Gibney builds a remarkable level of suspense, given how exhaustively WikiLeaks has been covered in the media.
Engaging, kinetic, revelatory and unexpected.
At once an awkward mingling of two complex life stories and a gripping, necessary look at how information is gathered, shared and, yes, stolen.
The film creates an astonishing picture of the complex new world of internet communications, intelligence and the ever-expanding web of post-cold war secrecy.
Having recently released documentaries on clerical abuse, Mario Cuomo, Park Avenue, Lance Armstrong and, now, WikiLeaks, Gibney seems in danger of becoming an actualit? machine.
Outstanding, cool-headed documentary.
Compelling, enlightening and utterly accessible, Gibney's ultra-slick pop-doc cleaves through the thorniest thicket of contemporary political issues to find, at its heart, two wholly human stories.
A breathless, dazzling and mind-blowingly complex 130-minute story.
I'd have liked to know more about his private life and background but Gibney has too much other ground to cover.
We Steal Secrets is much concerned with conspiracy theories and may well wind up fuelling new ones.
A thorough and decently intentioned work, though it accepts a little too glibly the more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger line against Assange: that he is a fascinating radical who simply became a paranoid authoritarian.
With a subject matter that oddly feels both timely and out-of-date, this documentary is packed with telling details about WikiLeaks, Although it gets muddy as it delves into the lives of founder Julian Assange and whistleblower Bradley Manning.
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This is an expertly organised documentary; Gibney's always are.
In truth, there's little in Alex Gibney's film that won't be familiar to attentive news watchers, but this skilled documentarian has mastered the art of condensing a vast and complex amount of information into a gripping and entertaining package.
The range of Gibney's subjects, the rigour of his research and the complexity of his questions make We Steal Secrets breathlessly compelling, but it's the moments of psychological probing that haunt the most.
Noxious government activities may warrant exposure, but Gibney points out that the whistleblowers can be pretty flawed too.
Alex Gibney adds to his forensic examinations of Enron and Abu Ghraib with another fine documentary.
Alex Gibney has shone his spotlight into a few dark corners and shown us something worthy of discussion.
A thoughtful documentary about Julian Assange, Bradley Manning, secrets, lies, power and the poorly understood nature of the internet.
If you're looking for a really comprehensive, clear, evenhanded and thoroughly entertaining examination of, well, the story of WikiLeaks, master documentarian Alex Gibney has gone to the trouble of providing you with one.
A fascinating insight into Wikileaks and the two men behind the world's largest ever whistleblowing scandal.
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