ShortHand: Julian Assange
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ShortHand: Julian Assange

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 11, 202637 min

When Julian Assange created WikiLeaks in 2006, it was the aim of rooting out corruption and improving transparency. And its successes were unprecedented, exposing hard-kept, dirty secrets from the very highest levels of power. But somewhere along the way, something happened. And whether it was Assange’s ego that brought him down – or the institutions he had so royally pissed off – isn’t totally clear. H&S try to find the truth about the world’s most famous truth-teller. -- Patreon - Ad-free & Bonus Episodes YouTube - Full-length Video Episodes TikTok / Instagram

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B2 · Upper-intermediate

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  • 161 words a minute: natural, fairly fast speech.
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Booze! God's justice, God's justice! Hello. Hello. And welcome to shorthand where order has been restored. We are back in our correct seats. Thank God for that. And gets anyone's wondering why we were swapped around. probably in an episode that came out ages ago because-

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What hasn't come out? What hasn't come out? Because we are in a jumble of when we're recording things and when we're releasing them

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