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The Iraq War Was The Biggest Issue For People Of My Generation In The West. It Was Also The Clearest Case, In My Living Memory, Of Media Manipulation And The Creation Of A War Through Ignorance.

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The Iraq War Was The Biggest Issue For People Of My Generation In The West. It Was Also The Clearest Case, In My Living Memory, Of Media Manipulation And The Creation Of A War Through Ignorance.

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The Iraq War Was The Biggest Issue For People Of My Generation In The West. It Was Also The Clearest Case, In My Living Memory, Of Media Manipulation And The Creation Of A War Through Ignorance.

If Wars Can Be Started By Lies, They Can Be Stopped By Truth.

During The Period Of House Arrest, I Had An Electronic Manacle Around My Leg For 24 Hours A Day, And For Someone Who Has Tried To Give Others Liberty All Their Adult Life, That Is Absolutely Intolerable.

Facebook In Particular Is The Most Appalling Spying Machine That Has Ever Been Invented. Here We Have The World's Most Comprehensive Database About People, Their Relationships, Their Names, Their Addresses, Their Locations And The Communications With Each Other, Their Relatives, All Sitting Within The United States, All Accessible To Us Intelligence. Facebook, Google, Yahoo.. All These Major Us Organizations Have Built-in Interfaces For Us Intelligence. It's Not A Matter Of Serving A Subpoena. They Have An Interface That They Have Developed For Us Intelligence To Use.

Everyone Should Understand That When They Add Their Friends To Facebook, They Are Doing Free Work For United States Intelligence Agencies In Building This Database For Them.

I Am An Australian Citizen, And I Miss My Country A Great Deal.

Society Develops A Type Of Self-censorship, With The Knowledge That Surveillance Exists - A Self-censorship That Is Even Expressed When People Communicate With Each Other Privately.

If Journalism Is Good, It Is Controversial, By Its Nature.

That Is Vaguely Conspiratorial, In A Networking Sense. We Have Published Their Meeting Notes.

If A Source Gives Us Material That Is Of Political, Diplomatic, Ethical Or Historical Significance That Has Not Been Published Before And Is Comprised Of Official Documents Or Recordings, Then We Will Publish It.

[let's Talk About] Donald Trump. What Does He Represent In The American Mind And In The European Mind? He Represents American White Trash, [which Hillary Clinton Called] 'deplorable And Irredeemable'. It Means From An Establishment Or Educated Cosmopolitan, Urbane Perspective, These People Are Like The Red Necks, And You Can Never Deal With Them.

Capable, Generous Men Do Not Create Victims, They Nurture Victims.

As We've Gotten More Successful, There's A Gap Between The Speed Of Our Publishing Pipeline And The Speed Of Our Receiving Submissions Pipeline. Our Pipeline Of Leaks Has Been Increasing Exponentially As Our Profile Rises, And Our Ability To Publish Is Increasing Linearly.

Sweden Is The Saudi Arabia Of Feminism.

Well, I Mean, The Real Attack On Truth Is Tabloid Journalism In The United States.

We Like To Engage In A Normal Publishing Effort, Which Is To Act In A Responsible Manner And Make Sure The Material Is Not Likely To Harm Anyone, That It Is Properly Investigated By Quality News Organizations, And By Lawyers And Human Rights Groups And So On.

The Only Way To Keep A Secret Is To Never Have One.

In My Situation, Frankly, I'm A Bit Institutionalised - This [the Embassy] Is The World .. It's Visually The World [for Me].

Libya Faces Along To The Mediterranean And Had Been Effectively The Cork In The Bottle Of Africa. So All Problems, Economic Problems And Civil War In Africa - Previously People Fleeing Those Problems Didn't End Up In Europe Because Libya Policed The Mediterranean. That Was Said Explicitly At The Time, Back In Early 2011 By [muammar] Gaddafi: 'what Do These Europeans Think They're Doing, Trying To Bomb And Destroy The Libyan State? There's Going To Be Floods Of Migrants Out Of Africa And Jihadists Into Europe, And This Is Exactly What Happened.

The Penetration Of Society By The Internet And The Penetration Of The Internet By Society Is The Best Thing That Has Ever Happened To Global Human Civilisation.

And If Bradley Manning Really Did As He Is Accused, He Is A Hero, An Example To Us All And One Of The World's Foremost Political Prisoners.

My Family Has Had To Move And Change Their Name And Have Been Subject To Threats From Right Wing Blogs Calling For My Son, For Example, To Be Killed To Get At Me.

I Saw That Publishing All Over The World Was Deeply Constrained By Self-censorship, Economics And Political Censorship, While The Military-industrial Complex Was Growing At A Tremendous Rate, And The Amount Of Information That It Was Collecting About All Of Us Vastly Exceeded The Public Imagination.

Let's Say That, Personally, I Loved Hillary Clinton. Would Wikileaks Still Publish This Material? Of Course It Would. Otherwise, We Would Be Censoring It. That's Our Mandate. It's Actually Interesting To Think About What Media Organizations Wouldn't Publish Such Material If It Was Given To Them.

I Don't Like The Word Transparency; Cold Dead Glass Is Transparent. I Prefer Education Or Understanding, Which Are More Human.

Libya, More Than Anyone Else's War, Was Hillary Clinton's War. Barak Obama Initially Opposed It. Who Was The Person Championing It? Hillary Clinton. That's Documented Throughout Her Emails.

You Can't Do Anything Sensible Until You Know What The Situation Is That You're In.

The Us Presidency Will Continue To Represent The Major Power Groups Of The United States - Big Business And The Military - Regardless Of Who The Talking Head Is.

Now, Is It The Case That Facebook Is Actually Run By U.s. Intelligence? No, It's Not Like That. It's Simply That U.s. Intelligence Is Able To Bring To Bear Legal And Political Pressure On Them. And It's Costly For Them To Hand Out Records One By One, So They Have Automated The Process. Everyone Should Understand That When They Add Their Friends To Facebook, They Are Doing Free Work For United States Intelligence Agencies In Building This Database For Them.

It Is The Media That Controls The Boundaries Of What Is Politically Permissible, So Better To Change The Media. Profit Motives Work Against It, But If We Can Have The Audience Understand That Most Other Forms Of Journalism Are Not Credible, Then It May Be A Forced Move.

Here We Have A Case, The Swedish Case, Where I Have Never Been Charged With A Crime, Where I Have Already Been Cleared [by The Stockholm Prosecutor] And Found To Be Innocent, Where The Woman Herself Said That The Police Made It Up, Where The United Nations Formally Said The Whole Thing Is Illegal, Where The State Of Ecuador Also Investigated And Found That I Should Be Given Asylum. Those Are The Facts, But What Is The Rhetoric?

I Would Be Immediately Arrested By The British Police And I Would Then Be Extradited Either Immediately To The United States Or To Sweden. In Sweden I Am Not Charged, I Have Already Been Previously Cleared [by The Senior Stockholm Prosecutor Eva Finne]. We Were Not Certain Exactly What Would Happen There, But Then We Know That The Swedish Government Has Refused To Say That They Will Not Extradite Me To The United States We Know They Have Extradited 100 Per Cent Of People Whom The U.s. Has Requested Since At Least 2000.

Every Time We Witness An Act That We Feel To Be Unjust And Do Not Act, We Become A Party To Injustice.

Wikileaks Has Been Publishing For Ten Years, And In Those Ten Years, We Have Published Ten Million Documents, Several Thousand Individual Publications, Several Thousand Different Sources, And We Have Never Got It Wrong.

If You Look At Most Definitions, A God Is Omnipresent, Omniscient And Omnipotent. In Particular, God Knows When You Are Doing Something That You Shouldn't Be Doing And Whether You Are Playing According To God's Rules.

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It's The World Without Sunlight, But I Haven't Seen Sunlight In So Long, I Don't Remember It.

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In My Role As Wikileaks Editor, I've Been Involved In Fighting Off Many Legal Attacks. To Do That, And Keep Our Sources Safe, We Have Had To Spread Assets, Encrypt Everything, And Move Telecommunications And People Around The World To Activate Protective Laws In Different National Jurisdictions.

I Found In Investigative Journalism It Is Always Best, If You Have Any Language Skills, Not To Admit Them.

I Had Had A Lot Of Experience In Bringing The Internet To Australia, And I Saw That Knowledge In The Hands Of People Achieves Reform.

When It Comes To The Point Where You Occasionally Look Forward To Being In Prison On The Basis That You Might Be Able To Spend A Day Reading A Book, The Realisation Dawns That Perhaps The Situation Has Become A Little More Stressful Than You Would Like.

While Many Of The Established Media Make Losses Or Go Bankrupt, Wikileaks Has Survived A Major Conflict With A Superpower, Including An Unlawful Economic Blockade By Its Banks And Credit Card Companies And The Detention Of Its Editor. We Have No Debts. We Have Not Had To Fire Staff. We Have Never Lost A Court Case Related To Our Publishing. We Have Never Been Forced To Censor. Adversity Has Hardened Us.

You Can Either Be Informed And Your Own Rulers, Or You Can Be Ignorant And Have Someone Else, Who Is Not Ignorant, Rule Over You.

The West Has Fiscalised Its Basic Power Relationships Through A Web Of Contracts, Loans, Shareholdings, Bank Holdings And So On. In Such An Environment It Is Easy For Speech To Be "free" Because A Change In Political Will Rarely Leads To Any Change In These Basic Instruments. Western Speech, As Something That Rarely Has Any Effect On Power, Is, Like Badgers And Birds, Free.

Under Hillary Clinton, The World's Largest Ever Arms Deal Was Made With Saudi Arabia, [worth] More Than $80 Billion.

I Fell Into A Hornets' Nest Of Revolutionary Feminism.

What Does Censorship Reveal? It Reveals Fear.

The Clinton Camp Has Been Able To Project That Kind Of Neo-mccarthy Hysteria: That Russia Is Responsible For Everything.

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Journalists Always Like An Excuse For Why Are They Talking About Something Now When They Didn't Talk About Something A Week Ago. They Always Like To Say Something Is New.

I Mean, There's Enormous Pressures To Harmonize Freedom Of Speech Legislation And Transparency Legislation Around The World - Within The E.u., Between China And The United States. Which Way Is It Going To Go? It's Hard To See.

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This Generation

The Emails That Give Evidence Of Access For Money And How Hillary Clinton Herself Benefited From This And How She Is Benefitting Politically, Are Quite Extraordinary.

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I Want To Set Up A New Standard: ‘scientific Journalism.’ If You Publish A Paper On Dna, You Are Required, By All The Good Biological Journals, To Submit The Data That Has Informed Your Research—the Idea Being That People Will Replicate It, Check It, Verify It. So This Is Something That Needs To Be Done For Journalism As Well. There Is An Immediate Power Imbalance, In That Readers Are Unable To Verify What They Are Being Told, And That Leads To Abuse.

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Libya Faces Along To The Mediterranean And Had Been Effectively The Cork In The Bottle Of Africa. So All Problems, Economic Problems And Civil War In Africa - Previously People Fleeing Those Problems Didn't End Up In Europe Because Libya Policed The Mediterranean. That Was Said Explicitly At The Time, Back In Early 2011 By Gaddafi: 'what Do These Europeans Think They're Doing, Trying To Bomb And Destroy The Libyan State? There's Going To Be Floods Of Migrants Out Of Africa And Jihadists Into Europe', And This Is Exactly What Happened.

Cryptography Is The Ultimate Form Of Non-violent Direct Action.

We Have A Way Of Dealing With Information That Has Sort Of Personal - Personally Identifying Information In It. But There Are Legitimate Secrets - You Know, Your Records With Your Doctor; That's A Legitimate Secret. But We Deal With Whistleblowers That Are Coming Forward That Are Really Sort Of Well Motivated.

You Have To Start With The Truth. The Truth Is The Only Way That We Can Get Anywhere. Because Any Decision-making That Is Based Upon Lies Or Ignorance Can't Lead To A Good Conclusion.

Secrecy Breeds Incompetence Because Where There Is Failure, Failure Is Kept Secret.

Reality Is An Aspect Of Property. It Must Be Seized. And Investigative Journalism Is The Noble Art Of Seizing Reality Back From The Powerful.

Wikileaks Is Really A Litmus Test For Those People Who Walk The Talk In The Media. How Much Will They Really Follow Their Protestations To Be Brave Publishers, And How Much Do They Really Want To Lick The Boots Of Power? Well, You Can Tell By Their Engagement With Us And What They Do.

Hillary Clinton Is The Smooth Central Representation Of All That, And 'all That' Is More Or Less What Is In Power Now In The United States. It's What We Call The Establishment Or The Dc Consensus. One Of The More Significant Podesta Emails That We Released Was About How The Obama Cabinet Was Formed And How Half The Obama Cabinet Was Basically Nominated By A Representative From Citi Bank. This Is Quite Amazing.

Email Says That No, It Is The Governments Of Saudi And Qatar That Have Been Funding Isis.

All Over The World The Barriers Between What Is Inside An Organisation And Outside An Organisation Are Being Smoothed Out. In The Military, The Use Of Contractors Means That What Is The Military And What Is Not The Military Is Smoothed Out.

Knowledge Has Always Flowed Upwards To Bishops And Kings, Not Down To Serfs And Slaves.

As Editor Of Wikileaks, I Am Very Proud Of Three Things. Number One, We Have Never Got It Wrong In Terms Of What We Say. A Document Is What It Is. Number Two, We Have Never Revealed One Of Our Sources Ever. Number Three, What Are We Proud Of? We Are Proud That There Is Not A Single Instance Of Anyone Coming Into Physical Harm As A Result Of Our Publication.

Because [donald Trump] So Clearly - Through His Words And Actions And The Type Of People That Turn Up At His Rallies - Represents People Who Are Not The Middle, Not The Upper Middle Educated Class, There Is A Fear Of Seeming To Be Associated In Any Way With Them, A Social Fear That Lowers The Class Status Of Anyone Who Can Be Accused Of Somehow Assisting Trump In Any Way, Including Any Criticism Of Hillary Clinton.

There's, Under Obama, An Epidemic Has Developed Of Abusing National Security Laws To Crack Down On Legitimate Use Of The First Amendment.

I Made An Asylum Application To Ecuador In This Embassy, Because Of The U.s. Extradition Case, And The Result Was That After A Month, I Was Successful In My Asylum Application. The Embassy Since Then Has Been Surrounded By Police: Quite An Expensive Police Operation Which The British Government Admits To Spending More Than £12.6 Million.

We Have To Be Careful About Applying Criminal Labels To People Until We're Very Sure.

True Information Does Good.

Wikileaks Is A Mechanism To Maximize The Flow Of Information To Maximize The Amount Of Action Leading To Just Reform.

One Of The Hopeful Things That I've Discovered Is That Nearly Every War That Has Started In The Past 50 Years Has Been A Result Of Media Lies. The Media Could've Stopped It If They Had Searched Deep Enough; If They Hadn't Reprinted Government Propaganda They Could've Stopped It.

Cryptography Is The Essential Building Block Of Independence For Organisations On The Internet, Just Like Armies Are The Essential Building Blocks Of States, Because Otherwise One State Just Takes Over Another.

Has Wikileaks Been Forced To Do One Thing Rather Than Another In Response To Resource Constraints? Yes. Constantly.

The One Real Irritant Is That My Young Children - They Also Adapt. They Adapt To Being Without Their Father. That's A Hard, Hard Adaption Which They Didn't Ask For. I Worry About Them; I Worry About Their Mother.

If You See The Rhetoric From Coming Out Of The Democrats Is That They're Pro-civil Liberties, And An Important Part Of Civil Liberties Is Respect For The First Amendment And The Rule Of Law, And That Has Broken Down Under The Obama Administration, And Hillary Clinton Was Part Of That Process.

The Rhetoric Is Pretending, Constantly Pretending That I Have Been Charged With A Crime, And Never Mentioning That I Have Been Already Previously Cleared, Never Mentioning That The Woman Herself Says That The Police Made It Up.

Censorship Is Always Cause For Celebration. It Is Always An Opportunity Because It Reveals Fear Of Reform. It Means That The Power Position Is So Weak That You Have Got To Care What People Think.

If You Were Following The [barack] Obama Campaign Back Then, Closely, You Could See It Had Become Very Close To Banking Interests. So I Think You Can't Properly Understand Hillary Clinton's Foreign Policy Without Understanding Saudi Arabia.

As A European Union Member State, As A Country Committed Throughout All Its History To The Fight For The Values That I Have Made My Own, As The Fifth World Power, As A Country That Has Marked My Life And European Union Houses Part Of European Union, France Can Act If It Wishes To Do So.

The Aim Of Wikileaks Is To Achieve Just Reform Around The World And Do It Through The Mechanism Of Transparency.

One Of The Best Attributes Of Human Beings Is That They're Adaptable; One Of The Worst Attributes Of Human Beings Is They Are Adaptable. They Adapt And Start To Tolerate Abuses, They Adapt To Being Involved Themselves In Abuses, They Adapt To Adversity And They Continue On.

It Is Impossible To Correct Abuses Unless We Know That Theyre Going On.

Domestic Violence

Of Course, No State Accepts [that It Should Call] The People It Is Imprisoning Or Detaining For Political Reasons, Political Prisoners. They Don't Call Them Political Prisoners In China, They Don't Call Them Political Prisoners In Azerbaijan And They Don't Call Them Political Prisoners In The United States, U.k. Or Sweden; It Is Absolutely Intolerable To Have That Kind Of Self-perception.

If You Want A Vision Of The Future, Imagine Washington-back Ed Google Glasses Strapped Onto Vacant Human Faces - Forever.

Visions Of The Future

My Personal Analysis Is That, If You Are Concerned About U.s. Foreign Policy And Getting Into Foolish Wars, Then Hillary Clinton Is Not Your Woman. On The Other Hand, I Mean Neither Is Donald Trump.

Barak Obama Initially Opposed [war In Libia].

That Was A Brave And Principled Thing For Ecuador To Do [give Me Asylum Application]. Now We Have The U.s. Election [campaign], The Ecuadorian Election Is In February Next Year, And You Have The White House Feeling The Political Heat As A Result Of The True Information That We Have Been Publishing.

As We Have Seen, Wikileaks Is A Robust Organization. During My Time In Solitary Confinement In The Basement Of A Victorian Prison, We Continue To Release, Our Media Partners Continued To Write Stories. The Important Revelations From This Material Continue To Come Out. We Have Approximately 2,000 Cables Into 250,000.

What Is The Possible Benefit? Can This Material Save Lives? Can It Improve The Quality Of Life In Iraq? Can It Tend To Shape Our Perceptions Of How War Should And Should Not Be Conducted? Can It Shape Our Perceptions Of Who Should Be Conducting War And In What Manner? And The Answer To That Is A Clear Yes.

Hillary Clinton The Centraliser That Inter-connects All These Different Cogs.

The Truth Is The Only Way That We Can Get Anywhere.

[hillary Clinton] Had Put Her Favoured Agent, Sidney Blumenthal, On To That; There's More Than 1700 Emails Out Of The Thirty Three Thousand Hillary Clinton Emails That We've Published, Just About Libya.

Wikileaks Is Designed To Make Capitalism More Free And Ethical.

Every Time We Witness An Injustice And Do Not Act, We Train Our Character To Be Passive In Its Presence And Thereby Eventually Lose All Ability To Defend Ourselves And Those We Love.

In Late 2011 There Is An Internal Document Called The Libya Tick Tock That Was Produced For Hillary Clinton, And It's The Chronological Description Of How She Was The Central Figure In The Destruction Of The Libyan State, Which Resulted In Around 40,000 Deaths Within Libya; Jihadists Moved In, Isis Moved In, Leading To The European Refugee And Migrant Crisis.

Where They Couldn't Pick Holes In Our Arguments They Would Drive Horses And Carriages Through My Character.

What Are The Differences Between Mark Zuckerberg And Me? I Give Private Information On Corporations To You For Free, And I'm A Villain. Zuckerberg Gives Your Private Information To Corporations For Money And He’s Man Of The Year.

In The Justice System, We Say There Must Be Open Justice Where There Is To Be Justice. The Judged While Trying Must Themselves Be Tried Before The Public.

I'm Constantly Annoyed That People Are Distracted By False Conspiracies Such As 9/11, When All Around We Provide Evidence Of Real Conspiracies, For War Or Mass Financial Fraud.

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I Actually Feel Quite Sorry For Hillary Clinton As A Person Because I See Someone Who Is Eaten Alive By Their Ambitions, Tormented Literally To The Point Where They Become Sick; They Faint As A Result Of [the Reaction] To Their Ambitions.

I'm Not A Big Fan Of Regulation: Anyone Who Likes Freedom Of The Press Can't Be.

If Instituted, The Tpp's Ip Regime Would Trample Over Individual Rights And Free Expression, As Well As Ride Roughshod Over The Intellectual And Creative Commons. If You Read, Write, Publish, Think, Listen, Dance, Sing Or Invent; If You Farm Or Consume Food; If You're Ill Now Or Might One Day Be Ill, The Tpp Has You In Its Crosshairs.

Hilary Clinton Stated Multiple Times, Falsely, That Seventeen U.s. Intelligence Agencies Had Assessed That Russia Was The Source Of Our Publications. That Is False; We Can Say That The Russian Government Is Not The Source.

As Always, Most Media Aligns With The Presumptive Winner Even Though Their Claimed Societal Virtue Is To Investigate Those In Power.

If We Can Only Live Once, Then Let It Be A Daring Adventure That Draws On All Our Powers. Let Our Grandchildren Delight To Find The Start Of Our Stories In Their Ears But The Endings All Around In Their Wandering Eyes.

We Always Expect Tremendous Criticism. It Is My Role To Be The Lightning Rod ... To Attract The Attacks Against The Organization For Our Work, And That Is A Difficult Role. On The Other Hand," He Said, "i Get Undue Credit.

Why Is It That Govt Employees Makes The Best Spouses? Because Afterthey Come Back From Work, They Are Not Tired And They Already Readthe Newspapers.

The Attack On The Truth By War Begins Long Before War Starts And Continues Long After A War Ends.

One Of The Best Ways To Achieve Justice Is To Expose Injustice.

[the Rhetoric] Is Trying To Avoid [the Truth That ] The U.n. Formally Found That The Whole Thing Is Illegal, Never Even Mentioning That Ecuador Made A Formal Assessment Through Its Formal Processes And Found That Yes, I Am Subject To Persecution By The United States.

The Supply Of Leaks Is Very Large. It's Helpful For Us To Have More People In This Industry. It's Protective To Us.

Over The Last Fifteen Years, Every Single Person The U.s. Has Tried To Extradite From Sweden Has Been Extradited, And They Refuse To Provide A Guarantee [that Won't Happen].

Guarantees That

Liberal Papers Are Not Necessarily Liberal.

Wikileaks Has Been A Very Strong Proponent Of The Freedom Of Information Act. This Is Probably, Actually, If You Think About It, Probably Against Our Interests As - As A Publisher. But We Believe That People Have The Right To Know True Information About What Their Government Is Doing.

A Great Number Of Those Working For Liberal Causes Are Not Only Shy But Borderline Collusive. They Want Change To Happen Nicely, And It Won't. They Want Decency To Come About Without Anybody Suffering Or Being Embarrassed, And It Won't. And Most Of All They Want To Give Many Of The Enemies Of Open Government The Benefit Of The Doubt, And I Don't. It's Not Just A Difference Of Approach, It's A Complete Schism In Our Respective Philosophy. You Can't Go About Disclosure In The Hope That It Won't Spoil Anybody's Dinner.

Journalism Should Be More Like Science. As Far As Possible, Facts Should Be Verifiable. If Journalists Want Long-term Credibility For Their Profession, They Have To Go In That Direction. Have More Respect For Readers.

Nothing. There's Nothing You Can Do. As Soon As You Do Something You'll No-longer Be Average.

The Most Important Publication Of Wikileaks Is That It Has Published More Than 10 Million Documents. The Most Important Single Collection Of Material We Have Published Is The Us Diplomatic Cable Series. We Started With 251,000 In 2011, But Are Up To 3 Million Now And Have More Coming.

Every Time You Go To A Party And Take A Picture And Post That Picture To Facebook, You're Being A Rat. You're Being A Narc.

We Don't Have Sources Who Are Dissidents On Other Sources. Should They Come Forward, That Would Be A Tricky Situation For Us, But We're Presumably Acting In Such A Way That People Feel Morally Compelled To Continue Our Mission, Not To Screw It Up.

Those Who Are Repeatedly Passive In The Face Of Injustice Soon Find Their Character Corroded.

We Have Published About 800,000 Documents Of Various Kinds That Relate To Russia. Most Of Those Are Critical; And A Great Many Books Have Come Out Of Our Publications About Russia, Most Of Which Are Critical.

Let Us Not Compare Edward Snowden's Situation With That Of Chelsea Manning Or Jeremy Hammond, Who Is Also Imprisoned In The United States. As A Result Of Wikileaks' Hard Work, Edward Snowden Has Political Asylum, Has Travel Documents, Lives With His Girlfriend, Goes To The Ballet And Earns Substantial Speaking Fees. Edward Snowden Is Essentially Free And Happy. That Is No Coincidence. It Was My Strategy To Undo The Chilling Effect Of The 35 Year Manning Sentence And It Has Worked.

Every War In The Past 50 Years Is A Result Of Media Lies

Power Is A Thing Of Perception. They Don't Need To Be Able To Kill You. They Just Need You To Think They Are Able To Kill You

The Goal Is Justice, The Method? Is Transparency. It's Important Not To Confuse The Goal And The Method.

Our [russia]documents Have Gone On To Be Used In Quite A Number Of Court Cases: Refugee Cases Of People Fleeing Some Kind Of Claimed Political Persecution In Russia, Which They Use Our Documents To Back Up.

The U.n. [the United Nations Working Group On Arbitrary Detention] Has Looked Into This Whole Situation. They Spent Eighteen Months In Formal, Adversarial Litigation. [so It's] Me And The U.n. Verses Sweden And The U.k. Who's Right? The U.n. Made A Conclusion That I Am Being Arbitrarily Detained Illegally, Deprived Of My Freedom And That What Has Occurred Has Not Occurred Within The Laws That The United Kingdom And Sweden, And That [those Countries] Must Obey. It Is An Illegal Abuse.

Wikileaks Is Literally The Worst Place In The World To Try And Plant A False Story.

There Are The Podesta Emails We've Been Publishing. [john] Podesta Is Hillary Clinton's Primary Campaign Manager, So There's A Thread That Runs Through All These Emails; There Are Quite A Lot Of Pay-for-play, As They Call It, Giving Access In Exchange For Money To States, Individuals And Corporations.

Although I Still Write, Research And Investigate, My Role Is Primarily That Of A Publisher And Editor-in-chief Who Organises And Directs Other Journalists.

Bitcoin Actually Has The Balance And Incentives Right, And That Is Why It Is Starting To Take Off.

The Best Type Of Government Comes From A Government That Is Scrutinized By The People When They Have True Information About Our Governments, Major Corporations, Other Power Actors In Society.

People Love Wikileaks When It Is Exposing Corruption In Their Opponents. People Oppose Wikileaks When It Is Exposing Corruption Or Dangerous Behavior In Themselves.

In Fact, During Her [hillary Clinton] Tenure As Secretary Of State, Total Arms Exports From The United States In Terms Of The Dollar Value, Doubled.

There's More Than 1700 Emails Out Of The Thirty Three Thousand Hillary Clinton Emails That We've Published, Just About Libya. It's Not That Libya Has Cheap Oil. She Perceived The Removal Of [muammar] Gaddafi And The Overthrow Of The Libyan State - Something That She Would Use In Her Run-up To The General Election For President.

Seeing Ongoing Political Reforms That Have A Real Impact On People All Over The World Is Extremely Satisfying. But We Want Every Person Who's Having A Dispute With Their Kindergarten To Feel Confident About Sending Us Material.

These Big-package Releases. There Should Be A Cute Name For Them.

Every Law, Every Constitution, Every Regulative Decision Is Based Upon What People Are Discussing In Their Community. It's Based Upon Our Sum Knowledge Of History And The Present.

Wikileaks Does Not Publish From The Jurisdiction Of Ecuador, From This Embassy Or In The Territory Of Ecuador; We Publish From France, We Publish From, From Germany, We Publish From The Netherlands And From A Number Of Other Countries, So That The Attempted Squeeze On Wikileaks Is Through My Refugee Status; And This Is, This Is Really Intolerable. [it Means] That [they] Are Trying To Get At A Publishing Organisation; [they] Try And Prevent It From Publishing True Information That Is Of Intense Interest To The American People And Others About An Election.

The Greater The Power, The More Need There Is For Transparency, Because If The Power Is Abused, The Result Can Be So Enormous. On The Other Hand, Those People Who Do Not Have Power, We Mustn't Reduce Their Power Even More By Making Them Yet More Transparent.

The Whole Universe Or The Structure That Perceives It Is A Worthy Opponent, But Try As I May I Can Not Escape The Sound Of Suffering. Perhaps As An Old Man I Will Take Great Comfort In Pottering Around In A Lab And Gently Talking To Students In The Summer Evening And Will Accept Suffering With Insouciance. But Not Now; Men In Their Prime, If They Have Convictions Are Tasked To Act On Them.

We All Only Live Once. So We Are Obligated To Make Good Use Of The Time That We Have And To Do Something That Is Meaningful And Satisfying. This Is Something That I Find Meaningful And Satisfying... I Enjoy Helping People Who Are Vulnerable. And I Enjoy Crushing Bastards.

The West Has Political Prisoners.

If You Look At The History Of The Fbi, It Has Become Effectively America's Political Police.

Hillary Clinton Represents A Whole Network Of People And A Network Of Relationships With Particular States.

The Question Is How Does Hilary Clinton Fit In This Broader Network? She's A Centralising Cog. You've Got A Lot Of Different Gears In Operation From The Big Banks Like Goldman Sachs And Major Elements Of Wall Street, And Intelligence And People In The State Department And The Saudis.

Intelligence Agencies Keep Things Secret Because They Often Violate The Rule Of Law Or Of Good Behavior.

My Motivation For 20 Years, For 10 Years With Wikileaks, Has Been To Publish True Information That Is Otherwise Unsayable. So We're Not In Competition, If You Like.

The Internet, Our Greatest Tool Of Emancipation, Has Been Transformed Into The Most Dangerous Facilitator Of Totalitarianism We Have Ever Seen. The Internet Is A Threat To Human Civilization.

I'm Thinking Of When The Qatari Representative Was Given Five Minutes With Bill Clinton For A Million Dollar Cheque.

Which Country Is Suffering From Too Much Freedom Of Speech? Name It, Is There One?

Freedom Of Speech

There's An Early 2014 Email From Hillary Clinton, Not So Long After She Left The State Department, To Her Campaign Manager John Podesta That States Isil Is Funded By The Governments Of Saudi Arabia And Qatar. Now This Is The Most Significant Email In The Whole Collection, And Perhaps Because Saudi And Qatari Money Is Spread All Over The Clinton Foundation.

What We Know Is Everything, It Is Our Limit, Of What We Can Be.

Wikileaks Will Not Comply With Legally Abusive Requests From Scientology Any More Than Wikileaks Has Complied With Similar Demands From Swiss Banks, Russian Offshore Stem-cell Centers, Former African Kleptocrats, Or The Pentagon.

Freedom Of Speech

My Answer Is That [donald] Trump Would Not Be Permitted To Win. Why Do I Say That? Because He's Had Every Establishment Off Side; Trump Doesn't Have One Establishment, Maybe With The Exception Of The Evangelicals, If You Can Call Them An Establishment, But Banks, Intelligence [agencies], Arms Companies... Big Foreign Money ... Are All United Behind Hillary Clinton, And The Media As Well, Media Owners And Even Journalists Themselves.

I Enjoy Helping People Who Are Vulnerable.

We Get Information In The Mail, The Regular Postal Mail, Encrypted Or Not, Vet It Like A Regular News Organization, Format It - Which Is Sometimes Something That's Quite Hard To Do, When You're Talking About Giant Databases Of Information - Release It To The Public And Then Defend Ourselves Against The Inevitable Legal And Political Attacks.

Wikileaks Has - We Specialize In Bringing The First Amendment To The World, And We Were Always Very Surprised One Of Our Biggest Battles Would Be Trying To Bring It To The United States Under An Obama Administration.

The Obama Administration Has Attempted To Prosecute More Journalists And Journalistic Sources Under The Same Espionage Act She Was Being Investigated Under In All Previous Presidencies Combined.

There Is Unity In The Oppression. There Must Be Absolute Unity And Determination, In The Response.

That Is My Temperament. I Enjoy Creating Systems On A Grand Scale, And I Enjoy Helping People Who Are Vulnerable. And I Enjoy Crushing Bastards.

The Sense Of Perspective That Interaction With Multiple Cultures Gives You I Find To Be Extremely Valuable, Because It Allows You To See The Structure Of A Country With Greater Clarity, And Gives You A Sense Of Mental Independence.

That's A Problem. I Mean, Like Any Sort Of Growing Startup Organization, We Are Sort Of Overwhelmed By Our Growth, And That Means We're Getting Enormous Quantity Of Whistleblower Disclosures Of A Very High Caliber But Don't Have Enough People To Actually Process And Vet This Information.

Enormous Quantities

Large Newspapers Are Routinely Censored By Legal Costs. It Is Time This Stopped. It Is Time A Country Said, Enough Is Enough, Justice Must Be Seen, History Must Be Preserved, And We Will Give Shelter From The Storm.

Facebook In Particular Is The Most Appalling Spying Machine That Has Ever Been Invented.

We Released 400,000 Classified Documents, The Most Extraordinary History Of A War To Ever Have Been Released In Our Civilization. Those Documents Cover 109,000 Deaths. That Is Serious Matter.

Not Only Did You Have People Fleeing Libya, People Fleeing Syria, The Destabilisation Of Other African Countries As A Result Of Arms Flows, But The Libyan State Itself Err Was No Longer Able To Control The Movement Of People Through It.

Trump Doesn't Have One Establishment, Maybe With The Exception Of The Evangelicals, If You Can Call Them An Establishment, But Banks, Intelligence Agencies, Arms Companies, Big Foreign Money, Are All United Behind Hillary Clinton, And The Media As Well, Media Owners And Even Journalists Themselves.

It Really Is My Opinion That Media In General Are So Bad That We Have To Question Whether The World Wouldn't Be Better Off Without Them Altogether. They Are So Distortive To How The World Actually Is That The Result Is.. We See Wars, And We See Corrupt Governments Continue On.

It Is Getting To The Point Where The Mark Of International Distinction And Service To Humanity Is No Longer The Nobel Peace Price, But An Espionage Indictment From The Us Department Of Justice.

I Enjoy Crushing Bastards. So It Is Enjoyable Work.

Here Then Is The Truth About The Truth; The Truth Is Not Bridge, Sturdy To Every Step, A Marvel Of Bound Planks And Supports From The Known Into The Unknown, But A Surging Sea Of Smashed Wood, Flotsam And Drowning Sailors.

I Would Be Happy To Accept Asylum, Political Asylum, In India — A Nation I Love. In Return, I Will Bring Mayawati A Range Of The Finest British Footwear.

Media Is A Big Problem Around The World, It's Powerful And Can Abuse Its Power.

The Fbi Demonstrated This By Taking Down The Former Head Of The Cia [general David Petraeus] Over Classified Information Given To His Mistress. Almost No-one Is Untouchable. The Fbi Is Always Trying To Demonstrate That No-one Can Resist Us. But Hillary Clinton Very Conspicuously Resisted The Fbi's Investigation, So There's Anger Within The Fbi Because It Made The Fbi Look Weak. We've Published About 33,000 Of Clinton's Emails When She Was Secretary Of State.

Big Brother Is Home. He Is Installed In The Item You Just Dragged Home From The Apple Store.

In The History Of Wikileaks, Nobody Has Claimed That The Material Being Put Out Is Not Authentic.

If We Are To Produce A More Civilized Society, A More Just Society, It Has To Be Based On The Truth.

Civilized Society

Libya, More Than Anyone Else's War, Was Hillary Clinton's War.

Transparency In Government Leads To Reduced Corruption.

I May Be A Chauvinist Pig Of Some Sort, But I'm No Rapist.

Cablegate Is 3,000 Volumes Of Material. It Is The Greatest Intellectual Treasure To Have Entered Into The Public Record In Modern Times.

These Megaleaks... They're An Important Phenomenon, And They're Only Going To Increase.

You Can't Publish A Paper On Physics Without The Full Experimental Data And Results; That Should Be The Standard In Journalism.

So When Putin Goes Out To Buy A Coke, Thirty Seconds Later It Is Known In Washington Dc.

To Be Alive As A Human Being Is To Know, In The Same Way As It Is To Have A Heart That Beats.

Libya, More Than Anyone Else's War, Was Hillary Clinton's War. Barak Obama Initially Opposed It. Who Was The Person Championing It? Hillary Clinton.

Even The U.s. Government Agrees That Some Saudi Figures Have Been Supporting Isil, Or Isis.

It's Interesting That Swiss Banks Also Hide Their Assets From The Swiss By Using Offshore Bank Structuring.

If We Can Only Live Once, Let It Be A Daring Adventure.

Sweden Formally Writing Back To The United Nations To Say, 'no, We're Not Going To [recognise The Un Ruling], So Leaving Open Their Ability To Extradite.

Power Factions Fight Back With Lies.

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