[LINK] Juilan Assange's Google-fame compared to prime ministers & other folk

[Robin Whittle]

  33,000,000    Julian Assange
 426,000,000    Wikileaks  (!)

  36,500,000    Wikileaks banks   (When I started writing this email
                                   and when I finished it, but for
                                   a while in between: 63,100,000.)

  15,900,000    Wikileaks Iraq
  38,700,000    Wikileaks cables
     762,000    Wikileaks censorship

   1,410,000    Julia Gillard  2010 -
   1,360,000    Kevin Rudd     2007 - 2010
   1,920,000    John Howard    1996 - 2007 (includes multiple people)
     192,000    Paul Keating   1991 - 1996
     144,000    Bob Hawke      1983 - 1991
     104,000    Malcolm Fraser 1975 - 1983
     105,000    Gough Whitlam  1972 - 1975

  11,400,000    Mel Gibson
   5,700,000    Nicole Kidman
   2,830,000    Russel Crowe
   2,070,000    Cate Blanchett
     387,000    Paul Hogan  (includes multiple people)

  28,700,000    AC-DC
     185,000    Michael Hutchence
      35,400    Michael Leunig

Its hard to put together a list of Australian's whose current
Google-fame totals that of Julian Assange.

  67,500,000    Hillary Clinton
  63,700,000    Barack Obama
  18,400,000    George Bush  (2)
  13,300,000    Bill Clinton
  15,200,000    Oprah Winfrey

  31,600,000    Jesus Christ
  33,100,000    Mohammed
  22,800,000    Buddha


Fame includes infamy.  Julian Assange:

     722,000    + condom
     562,000    + rape

  34,100,000    + wikileaks  (?)

   2,840,000    + freedom

   8,920,00     + Australia(n)

BTW, not all Republicans are calling for Julian Assange to be arrested
or killed.  Congressman Ron Paul (Texas) is reported as saying "What
we need is more Wikileaks on the Federal Reserve":

  http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?singlepost=2295205

     "In a society where truth becomes treason, we are in big
      trouble.  . . . Why don't we prosecute the New York Times ...?
      Do we think of Daniel Elsberg as an enemy or the people?"


Karl Denninger writes about the belief (seems reasonable to me) that
the sudden ramping up of hostility to Wikileaks and Julian Assange is
related to the promise to release a bunch of stuff from a major US bank:

  http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=174261

  http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-bank-of-america-2010-11

If this conspiracy theory is correct, then it seems you can mess with
the US military and government and get away with it . . . . but a big
US bank is another matter.

The big US banks certainly seem to have the current and previous US
presidents and most members of Congress in their pocket.  (I find Karl
Denninger's site a great way to keep an eye on the economic crisis and
related matters.)

Infamy certainly promotes fame/infamy:

  42,900,000    Tiger Woods
   1,280,000    O. J. Simpson

Some of these high numbers for Julian Assange will presumably fade
over time, unless the dramas proliferate - and I imagine they will.

While I am at it:

 204,000,000  war USA
 203,000,000  war China
 177,000,000  war Japan
 164,000,000  war Germany
 112,000,000  war Korea
 102,000,000  war Israel
  85,100,000  war Afghanistan
  23,000,000  war Palestine
  39,100,000  war Iraq
  30,200,000  war Iran
  27,500,000  war Vietnam
  22,200,000  war Somalia
     169,000  war Australia


  - Robin