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He looked a bit like Phantomias, Donald Duck’s superhero alter ego in coloured ghds the German comic mbooks, mgetting mready mto m..y, mbut mhe malso made ma mworldlym impression. A short time before the awards ceremony, which was held in Linz’s Bucknerhaus, we got separated. Perhaps Julian had decided to take a walk along the river or had gone back to the hotel, because he didn’t like the scene at Bucknerhaus. He didn’t miss much. To my eyes, the projects that were given awards were completely senseless, and the moderator who eventually announced that we had taken second place didn’t even mention us by name. The giant ballroom where the ceremony was held was full of gentlemen in suits ghd hair styler and ladies in evening gowns, and the ..rst row was occupied by sponsors, taking up at least twenty seats, with the artists in their required idiosyncratic attire between them. The whole thing was a waste of time for us because no one learned who we were. So much for the art mavens who were supposed to stu.. our pockets with large- denomination bills. The accompanying exhibit also struck me as being completely over the top. I did buy a watch that ran on bio-energy from a plant, but that was the only project I liked. Otherwise, people just ran around, pompously talking about their banal works and praising themselves to the skies. In the cellar there was a presentation with a couple of photos and some stand-up posters from us. I had tinkered with the surrounding Internet terminals so that the browsers only called up the WikiLeaks page. But even that didn’t attract anyone’s attention. I caught a plane the following day, earlier than pl ghd straighteners anned, because the entire event got on my nerves pink hair straighteners so much. Julian stayed until Monday. Them emreeemermemhmemhe prizewinners were supposed to be given a chance to present their projects and talk to one another. 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TheK document,K which we published on AugustK 1K ofK thatK year,K showedK thatK theK bank’sK partnersK andK close associatesK hadK beenK givenK creditK onK extremelyK favorableK termsK just beforeK theK bankK hadK ..ledK forK insolvency.K TheK mediaK would subsequently speak of the bank being “plundered” by its owners. The recipients of the loans hadn’t put down much in the way of security, if anything at all, but had received sums in the high millions. The revelations made people in Iceland take to the streets, and there was outrage in England and the Netherlands, too, where many of the debtorsK wereK located.K IcelandersK realizedK thatK theyK hadK been systematically exploited. Their state and their social security system had goneK bankruptK whileK ..nancialK thirdK partiesK hadK gleefullyK ..lledK their pockets. A short time later, a group of Icelanders got in touch with us. One of them was a student named Herbert Snorrason. Together with a group at hisK universityK calledK FSFI,K heK wasK planningK a conferenceK onK digital liberties and asked whether we’d like to attend. I immediately said yes. Julian initially hesitated. He always agreed to attend events only at the last minute, af cheap ghd straighteners uk ter I’d planned and organized everything. Maybe hN Q q [ vygMyb wasK convincedK whenK IK mentionedK thatK Iceland,K statistically,K hasK the highest proportion of attractive women in the world. I had read that somewhere. I was glad to go with him to the conference in Iceland. We always had a lot of fun whenever we were together. What was beginning to irritate me, though, was his way of playing the boss. He always shook hands with people ..rst, for instance, saying, “I’m Julian Assange, and thisK isK myK colleague.”K IK wouldK haveK neverK doneK that.K ItK wouldK have never occurred to me to say of Julian: “This is my colleague.” We ..ew to Iceland in November 2009. 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