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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.

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This Generation

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.

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.

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.

Stopping Leaks Is A New Form Of Censorship.

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.

[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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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].

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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.

What Does Censorship Reveal? It Reveals Fear.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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True Information Does Good.

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.

I Fell Into A Hornets' Nest Of Revolutionary Feminism.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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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.

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.

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Liberal Papers Are Not Necessarily Liberal.

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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.

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

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

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Power Factions Fight Back With Lies.

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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.

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

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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.

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

I Enjoy Crushing Bastards. So It Is Enjoyable Work.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Freedom Of Speech

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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

Dont Shoot The Messenger For Revealing Uncomfortable Truths.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

Barak Obama Initially Opposed [war In Libia].

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.

The West Has Political Prisoners.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

[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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Visions Of The Future

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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 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.

I Enjoy Helping People Who Are Vulnerable.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

Wikileaks Is Designed To Make Capitalism More Free And Ethical.

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.

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.

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 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.

Transparency In Government Leads To Reduced Corruption.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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