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so it'll be meaningful that you're turning against one of your own you know is is is really disappointing. money talks. the internet it seems. i found out that dole had bought my name on google whenever you googled my name and dole would follow. even our own movie trailer would have a darling. aggressive comments appeared in a commentary track after online articles. by grassroots on the internet. there is no question it's cool that people at the moment in strategic communications are using false identities in the virtual space to raise awareness of certain issues. if you put thirty people in
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a room who are paid to pretend to be brenda because now that's essentially what people are talking about with this kind of false grassroots campaigning which is and strict and that's illegal. yeah but of course they are. no question strategic communications have a stream of people they're hiring who want from traditional p.r. backgrounds and that includes former members of the security services for members of psychological operations former members of essential behavioral change industries that clearly up until recently were fairly covert as a consequence now the lines of service offering are getting a bit blurred because these people coming in with nontraditional approaches. so for example you might look at someone you're trying to supposedly take down
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smear whatever it maybe by looking at the way in which you could put fishes between themselves and their support structure. one of the ways they may have assessed your battle worthiness your your ability to sustain the fight would be to look at your finances another one would be to look. where you are with your life for the moment i mean are you and alcohol it are you suffering from stress. you've got to look at the individual that's coming against you are there masses of skeletons in the closet have you done this before we got involved perhaps the services of a private investigator or something phone hacking e-mail reading it happens people buy and sell those kind of services all over the world when you've got hundreds of million dollar industry that needs to protect its reputation. a few million being spent on on a. campaign to do just that is probably good good money well spent. you
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could say the film was based on facts is further proof that i understand about your finances. just works. i think you being a little bit naive if you think that you can take a poll at a big multinational. and expect to walk away with some sort of funny. i want to say i'm not credited with doling anywhere but i do object to that and of publicity filmmakers like gert they spend millions on their brand every year and you're going to come in and start selling their brand and start attacking their brand what did you think was going to happen to you as a producer ever due to the truth.
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the letter was addressed to me but that mean that i get to tragic you missed and in the horrid asked for the hatred was aimed at him. while i was mainly to be. obviously was misguided too. late if you stop working with him everything will work out well for you. frederick urged me to pull out said he would weather this on his own. home. still photo could look myself in there i did that but i just couldn't do it we made this film together and will see it through this together. in lincoln is there something in it that you think looks really dangerous or something you didn't expect though so no no in fact if you read out was really just a rehash why surely not. we
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decided to fight back with counter sue dole and file a motion arguing that dole and used the weight of a lawsuit to suppress our freedom of speech. and now we want the judge to rule in our favor as soon as possible. just a few days later i found a blog on the internet and it was a local blogger who had followed our case and he was writing about what happened when he ordered food cited at a hamburger restaurant. around a blog not for profit i don't have any commercial sponsors. i'm interested in politics that's all. about the time when there was such a hopeless about bananas this friend and i were out shopping like the nerds we are
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and if we went to all these electronics in computer stores then we decided to go get something to eat. and settled on a max. swedish in the neighborhood is a good to. i went for a fruit salad instead of fries. when they handed it to me i noticed the dome logo. and my gut reaction was what the hell. i told the girl at the counter i don't know what this. took a picture of it when i got back home i wrote to max hamburgers. asking them why with a clear cut green profile why this is something that was at that point in time as controversial as dull products. he made reference to the film and the lawsuits i wasn't aware of any controversy so i looked into it only internet. and then told
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my marketing staff to investigate the matter. i actually received e-mails from other guests while i was doing my search people who had the same opinion. we studied the matter and it made us feel uncomfortable. we asked for an explanation but the swedish office referred to the us office and they never got back to us so we decided to stop selling the product effective immediately. i got an answer from the public relations manager at max he told me they had spoken to. him and have decided to discontinue little. post of their apply on my blog along with an image and. all hell broke loose. the big newspapers picked it up and suddenly we went from the cultural pages of the
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newspaper to the business pages and that's what a power it's. done in my local cheese shop i bumped into lucy on us to do you and member of parliament he had read about our struggle and he asked if he could help me i said yes it would be great if we could show this film in the problem and. i know it's a social democrat so i decided to also called an m.p. from a conservative government party and i asked him the same question. the film was taken out of competition when it all threatened to see the film festival the film was screened anyway and in july he and his company were served with a lawsuit. now the film has come to the attention of the swedish parliament.
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to do you know why screen this film in the parliament is fundamentally it's about the right of filmmakers to describe events. this is a means of showing our support of these rights so it's about freedom of speech exactly as finance and politics go global freedom of speech needs to follow suit the right to express your beliefs and to describe the course of events just picture if they are successful the thought what a devastating impact it would have on our future if filmmakers are journalists are no longer able to document events what about accountability in society. i mean this was when my social democrat callie as to do a little walk and i was looking at options one same very obvious to us a film that risked distribution bad must be shot in palm of that i think that if they're going to call i appreciate your coming. hi friend frederick. so we meet
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again this is margaret the producer she's being sued to. me there's a saying movies are better at the movies to get a but screening our film for parliament is certainly fantastic. and i'm incredibly proud i mean i sincerely hope this signal will make its way from sweden to drive in westlake los angeles on the one west. wing of the thing about freedom of speech is that you that it applies to everyone even the bad guys. in the tea leoni and even the people who want to abolish it.
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could have taken place without the full consent of the americans and what we've. come up with that only. another dictator which is. about this to protect its own back go ahead. spring is a crisis moment in national politics it is the moment in which connell put the genie back in the baltic because the people on the ground in those countries for example in egypt there is a nationalist swing tool. do we really think that sisi is going to be able to come under him without the people rising up again. as the media leave us or we leave the. other. where shoes that no one is asking with to get they deserve answers from. politics.
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and we'll keep on slashing at them with our machetes because we've hit them hard and they're bleeding. i'm preparing the next machete which will be sharper and bigger. i hope that a great deal of people will join our appeal today. we have a petition that we intend to send to dole. requesting them to withdraw. when we screened the film into parliament we had support from every party. every parliamentarian signed a petition to request gold to withdraw the lawsuit. the worst case
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scenario is that this is on the rise worldwide that governments companies and individuals taking their critics to course we don't want to see that in sweden p.r. people in washington d.c. even more active and began writing letters and e-mails and calling every swedish journalist that interviewed me. letters to the m.p.'s they said. i'll do i would have been more impressed if they're taking a real stand. by actually discussing the issues at hand. at first people got scared and provoked by these letters but when they realized that many of their colleagues had received the same treatment the atmosphere changed. it was becoming. that letter may i have a copy. who wrote it michael.
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that came with a few days ago there right at the very pro free speech and the rest of the letter is a defamation of frederick guess and. then our body there is been abuzz since early spring but now the fillmore finally opened its cinemas in sweden. for being a documentary there are a lot of copies being distributed so it has the potential to reach a wide audience. it's like a hollywood thurlow are worth all the lawyers like philadelphia before but for some it's a brilliant fail. one week after the screening to parliament we opened in theaters all over sweden and the support is amazing we have no idea how dole will react but this is really our
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moment and we are enjoying it. the most frequent text message sent here tonight says. congratulations keep on fighting one color car and asked if your film will be shown in the us the very thing that we don't know we do know that we will not allow gold to intimidate us what's the worst case scenario. i decided early on to not waste too much energy dwelling on the bad things that could happen i think that's exactly what they want it's better to show the film get out and meet all of you. that will send a message from all of us what the hell are you doing.
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suddenly a lot of people would talk. about how the banana workers were treated and about freedom of speech. in supermarkets all over the country people started to tell the managers we don't want. in the supermarkets and most sold and most profitable i. saw the big supermarket chains crisis me they could feel the heat. if about that we keep up with the latest discussions with the bar and the debate reached a higher level due to the lawsuit in july. so europe to come and see us so we could tell them about the massive wave of public opinion in sweden that we cannot tolerate legal action like this. finally the
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pressure was on gold not on me. together with my new political friends we had invited the biggest supermarket chains in the country to meeting in the parliament . two hours before the meeting journalist started to call don't act withdrawn the lawsuit in the me and the rather surprisingly doll announced today that they will withdraw their lawsuit against frederick garrett and get a little book it's fantastic news. even though we're a small company in sweden and dole is a us based multinational corporation and we have been able to stand up for what is right and you know there's a god obviously it's great if they withdraw the lawsuit but we haven't heard from our lawyers here. it's a press release we don't know what this means in court sahana than when we called joel this is what we heard our. gulf war.
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zone. reactions and the strong concerns in sweden really moved us so it was important for us to to let people understand that we also respect freedom of speech and that's a way for us to show which. it's pretty inspiring to see the. support i mean i really doubt it would happen in canada it was heartening to see that happen from afar and frustrating to know that we can only make that happen here maybe something would change. the film director.
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before deciding to room. taking it meant they could sue us again. this threat meant that no insurance company would cover the us distribution. only to get the film out in the us to win over in court. this morning. was a disappointment sensually continued hearing. until twenty four what is really is accomplishing the objective. speech even winning in this case would not be over very very long.
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our legal system. today. to court date in june go to council to and we have no been in this for more than a year. late august and i received a new letter from michael contra told to drop. he's ready to come to sweden negotiate a settlement if i only make some cuts to the movie these guys never stop even if they know they're wrong they never stop. two months later i'm on my way to film festival. later today. in court in los angeles. this is the moment we've been waiting for.
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i was very excited i was i was i was very. exacting the way i wanted it. it was it was right on. the line is tentative ruling. everything out perfectly. you don't want. more and. that's basically argument which was there were times in the area where it was kind of questionings. or look like what we're talking about anyway so i don't want. to. hurt you aren't. i didn't think i would be able to read a legal document with a smile. but this is
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a total win for us. big boys schools. i am. now our film is free also in the us. but you never know with these scams. i would turn to nicaragua to show the film to the workers. told invested millions in lawyers and media spin to suppress distorting. stories like this one about poverty and injustice need to be told over and over again.
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and they say it was great i really liked it do you know why because the film shows the truth and the truth will never be silenced. approximately sixteen percent of imports came from illegal fishing. in the european union is ironically taking fish from some of the poorest nations on earth so this is a very serious and very urgent problem that needs. immediate international action. give the territorial waters
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a fish they load the fish on to the ships and leave for europe. to day illegal fishing just taking the bread out of our mouths. do you think your argument about turkey bang dot. example muslim democracy that was able to separate the it's really from its economy still can be applied to these day that's a fair point when i spoke about in the book was how he had done some being accompanied by asking you to go away with hyperinflation. so achieved so much economic success and i think that was great but the problem there is of course they do want to believe his attitude has changed he now has become much more to talk to . any criticism and more bad annoyed.
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his lover into an amazon. that had been my dream for so long. he couldn't hold on to research a thing as a teacher and now she runs her own factory. there's no alcohol or smoking under even coffee is forbidden they worship the sun. will he be able to women. men versus women on. the deepest. usually the no more than fifty years old this one dates back twenty five.
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spirits and buddhist gods live here. the pure clear water in the lake is helping scientists unravel the mysteries of the universe. i try to see by cal in its entirety. it's not that i have discovered something new here rather that i absorb everything that this place offers. the spirit of. the whole i want to. make up something that is quite simply a mess. was no way oh. clearly they were just at the wrong place at the wrong time. and sold to the us and turned over
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to the us for. the soul that could be buried alive. was saved with great effort. and they wanted to turn me into a terrorist so it is they wanted me to admit that i was a member of al qaeda and the taliban and that i fought with them. not a bad time i didn't even know what al-qaeda is nevertheless there are people. brave enough to start a fight. something is going to be done that's going to be done by me in the span of a short amount of time doing it but it's going to impact me i'd be prosecuted but it's not going to impact. the wife or my daughter. the one time i'm a trapped monarchy. exactly what happened there i don't know but a woman got killed. later is when i got arrested for. for a crime i did not do. we have numerous cases where police officers lie about
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polygraph results. and people to try to the police officers don't beat people anymore i mean it just doesn't happen really. in the course of interrogation why because there's been this is like meant no because the psychological techniques are more effective in obtaining confessions than physical abuse they were off taking they could do what they wanted they can say what they wanted and there was no evidence of what they did or what they said. to the. course outside to an active camps at one time where patients are forced that the month after announcing the first strike never turned the world's attention to the
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