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Well, There's A Question As To What Sort Of Information Is Important In The World, What Sort Of Information Can Achieve Reform. And There's A Lot Of Information. So Information That Organizations Are Spending Economic Effort Into Concealing, That's A Really Good Signal That When The Information Gets Out, There's A Hope Of It Doing Some Good...

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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.

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.

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

Non-conformity Is The Only Real Passion Worth Being Ruled By.

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

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.

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

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.

This Generation Is Burning The Mass Media To The Ground.

This Generation

I Fell Into A Hornets' Nest Of Revolutionary Feminism.

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.

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.

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.

It Is The Role Of Good Journalism To Take On Powerful Abusers, And When Powerful Abusers Are Taken On, There's Always A Bad Reaction. So We See That Controversy, And We Believe That Is A Good Thing To Engage In.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Freedom Of Speech

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

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

Dont Shoot The Messenger For Revealing Uncomfortable Truths.

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.

Through The Confessional System The Catholic Church Spied Upon The Lives Of Its Congregants. While Latin Mass Excluded Most People Who Could Not Speak Latin From An Understanding Of The Very System Of Thought That Bound Them.

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

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

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.

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.

Transparency In Government Leads To Reduced Corruption.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

When Enron Collapsed, Through Court Processes, Thousands And Thousands Of Emails Came Out That Were Internal, And It Provided A Window Into How The Whole Company Was Managed. It Was All The Little Decisions That Supported The Flagrant Violations.

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.

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.

We Have Some Material On Spying By A Major Government On The Tech Industry. Industrial Espionage.

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

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.

The Corruption In Reporting Starts Very Early. It's Like The Police Reporting On The Police.

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.

The West Has Political Prisoners.

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.

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

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.

To Keep A Person Ignorant Is To Place Them In A Cage.

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.

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

Visions Of The Future

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

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.

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.

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.

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 Publish A Paper On Physics Without The Full Experimental Data And Results; That Should Be The Standard In Journalism.

This Movement Is Not About The Destruction Of Law, But The Construction Of Law.

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.

Don’t Damage Computer Systems You Break Into (including Crashing Them); Don’t Change The Information In Those Systems (except For Altering Logs To Cover Your Tracks); And Share Information.

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

Domestic Violence

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

In The United Kingdom At Various Stages, Journalism Has Been The Profession Of Gentlemen Amateurs. And Some Of Them Even Pride Themselves On Being Amateurs. Their Quality Is Not Comparable With The Quality Of Intelligence Services Even If Most Of Them Harbor A Remarkable Degree Of Corruption And Incompetence.

Intelligence Services

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

Wikileaks Is Designed To Make Capitalism More Free And Ethical.

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.

True Information Does Good.

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

Wikileaks Is A Source Protection Organization. We Are Famous For Never Having Exposed One Of Our Sources Over 10 Years. That's Why Sources Trust Us And They Come To Us.

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

Barak Obama Initially Opposed [war In Libia].

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.

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.

Freedom Of Speech

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

A Lot Of People Who Work For Wikileaks Have The Same Instinct As Me: If You Are Pushed You Push Back.

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.

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.

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

What Does Censorship Reveal? It Reveals Fear.

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

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.

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

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.

[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.

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

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

[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.

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.

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.

Power Factions Fight Back With Lies.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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 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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I Just Find It Absolutely Amazing That The Narrative About This Situation Is Not Put Out Publically In The Press, Because It Doesn't Suit The Western Establishment Narrative - That Yes, The West Has Political Prisoners, It's A Reality, It's Not Just Me, There's A Bunch Of Other People As Well.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

Sweden Is The Saudi Arabia Of Feminism.

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

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.

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.

Liberal Papers Are Not Necessarily Liberal.

[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.

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

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

I Enjoy Crushing Bastards. So It Is Enjoyable Work.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

I Always Believed That Wikileaks As A Concept Would Perform A Global Role, And To Some Degree It Was Clear That It Was Doing That As Far Back As 2007 When It Changed The Result Of The Kenyan General Election.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Civilized Society

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.

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.

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.

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.

I Enjoy Helping People Who Are Vulnerable.

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.

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 Coauthored My First Nonfiction Book By The Time I Was 25. I Have Been Involved In Nonfiction Documentaries, Newspapers, Tv And Internet Since That Time.

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.

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.

Well, There's A Question As To What Sort Of Information Is Important In The World, What Sort Of Information Can Achieve Reform. And There's A Lot Of Information. So Information That Organizations Are Spending Economic Effort Into Concealing, That's A Really Good Signal That When The Information Gets Out, There's A Hope Of It Doing Some Good...

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.

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.

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.

The Difficulty That Wikileaks Has, Of Course, Is That We Can't Go Around Speculating On Who Our Sources Are. That Would Be Irresponsible.

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.

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

There Is Nothing New In This World Other Than The History That You Don't Know Yet.

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.

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

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

Stopping Leaks Is A New Form Of Censorship.

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.

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