at least but in all countries all right to be independent i who reacts resist global dominance a lot of disagreement there but an interesting discussion that would see in motley president of left governments and iraq war veteran michael prysner in our los angeles studio now that does it for now for more on the stories that we've covered go to our t. dot com slash your say i check out our you tube page it's youtube dot com slash r t america also feel free to follow me on twitter at floozy capital and we'll feel right back here and a half an hour. earlier . today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world seeing from the streets of kandahar. charlie corporations are a. little. they'll

they'll. they'll the milk milk . the web site wiki leaks what's kept upping. its name is chili and salt which felt better i think that counts for detention and what kind of a bag which exists under attack. he says he has a dream a world without secrets the first step in the for the state is through to get

information out of the real world today anyone can find out what information the government the military and bankers of kept under lock and key secrecy is the biggest a little bit of democracy that is wiki leaks the dream of an idealist or a tool to manipulate global politics to. works on and on anger. what motivates julian assange does he want to change the world or is he just seeking fame does he act on his own or is someone else behind wiki leaks and will it's whistle blowing revelations changed the world forever. kunis january twentieth the city with millions of residents descends into chaos thousands of protesters take to the streets in downtown genius to demand the

immediate resignation of president ben ali who has ruled the country for over twenty three years after several days of tensions resulting bloodshed ben ali had to flee the capital on january the fifteenth this. the events that took place in the north african country in january were immediately dumped in the jasmine revolution of the two missing in kuwait also has another name the wiki revolution. this man is a professor at one of the universities inch yunus. as a political activist he prefers to be known by his nickname ice rebel he didn't take part in the attacks on government buildings but he said to be one of the main driving forces of the revolution. after registering his website community he began posting material concerning choosier from diplomatic cables in arabic and french the cables were made public by julian assange and the person of twenty ten. at the

first thing with the first seventy seven thousand documents and then we've got others. the sensation as i said it was really very very very interesting to note the true facts that the u.s. government is waiting. to leave the u.s. government was. really not supporting going to the for human rights violation. discontent with the president could link it in power for too long had been brewing in tunisia for quite some time public anger erupted after students mohamed was easy setting self on fire and publish stories of runaway corruption eroding the top echelon of the chinese even government. after when. i came and how many guises he did what he did. i think tradition was

a major or two. to start to change what's happened in tunisia and also in egypt and it's happening in a few other cases these diplomatic cables troll people. they were actually right and not trusting in thinking that there was something that was corrupt. steinberg shams the public spotlight he's going to stay in the shade although in actual fact he's just as much a godfather of the wiki leaks project as julian assange yes. yes my name is daniel smith this is truly an astonishing we're here to make a short presentation about what we can extract what we don't daniel don't steinberg could be described as co-creator of the internet's most scandalous web site sit together he understands took the idea of creating a site where any person can safely post secret information anonymously and made it a reality that what you eat i heard about wiki leaks in september two thousand and

seven and in november two thousand and seven i first got in touch with julian and he was already working on wiki leaks at that time so i asked if they needed any help. and started working on a couple of topics john young registered the wiki leaks domain name in late december two thousand and six although young had already created something similar to wiki leaks several years before previously he used the crypto site for publishing classified material secrecy is the biggest. fear of real democracy. british where you are different and so threats to democracy are coming from the inside of the from the secret keeper. and that they need to be exposed during the first few years of wiki leaks the resource was treated as a project created by internet fringes we can lead lives off donations but they were inconsistent at the time and for twenty years we were one and

a half years me tried to build up we can fix as a project we published a lot of documents and tried to get funding and it was very difficult so we have all put in all our private funding into the project and tried to sustain it but that really didn't work out so well at least not an infinite amount and. this is nuclear shelter you built during the second world war and modernized during the cold war. so with data centers of welcoming are unable to show you the facility this bunker in stockholm was built to protect swedish army personnel from a nuclear attack tell tell reminders of its original purpose can be seen all over the place. we're digitally these type was actually in submarines and so they are german submarines from the beginning and the alarm in case of trouble the alarm

starts an alarm is. one. today behind at least thick walls and heavy doors the reserves carrying thousands of websites some of them store wiki leaks data. this is the cabin up and you feel down to see these things to articulate sort of a swedish noise provide better protection against attacks on wiki leaks than the bunkers morals or a security system they'll only go through the roof for becoming the i want your money they were being taken it must be a big deal to make it a material there for the wrong. assumption his team had to be very careful about the security of their service after this video was posted on their site specific to

. their eyes. back in two thousand and seven american army servicemen were caught on camera shooting dead a reuters reporter and his driver in a baghdad suburb after they mistook them from terrorists three years after the tragedy wiki leaks published the video sparking a massive international right now one that it shows you errors in the internal the additional mechanisms. and it shows you that reports about or who is insurgent who is not an insurgent could appear in the media following events where people are killed cannot be trusted several months later in the summer of twenty ten the site and its partner outlets publish the afghan dossier or what. wiki leaks itself called the afghanistan war diaries they contained eighty thousand on the spot reports about the course of the campaign the zone said they had received the

classified information from a man employed at the u.s. department of defense. it covers a six year period or ninety two thousand reports and almost every incident serious incident here with no three i wasn't told. our location number of people as soon as the afghan dossier was made public asuncion his team soared to instant fame but scathing criticism soon followed the most common i.q. zation was that the names of afghans collaborating with allied troops and details concerning american agents had not been redacted from the reports the taliban were quick to pledge to kill all those who had helped the u.s. army. it was appears the most the bit here peter i mean where we're looking at mission seriously anyway but it really did hold back. for for them because they had this sort of patience i think if they've made it they can take it for their aerial

if urged the white house i cross their resistance in reviewing or we published the white house and or accept that request. every week well so we were meeting in this cafe here is the party leadership we've just had a half day meeting says we're under the leadership a little bit has taken over the party leadership. we're wrapping up breakfast and discussing how to move over the next couple years. swedish internet pirates have no office of their own that's why they meet in this cafe in stockholm and the movement is held wiki leaks greatly by sharing its knowledge on creating a growing network of mirror sites as well as decoding and processing information. when we step in to support we collate in august of last year they were not as known as they are know today they have received aid from thousands and thousands of

people so they are not. our aid doesn't make as much difference today as it did know that said however it was still the swiss pirate party. and brought wiki leaks the wiki leaks domain online and went offline during the hectic week of information wars. similar projects have been launched around the world including russia. most people in russia don't speak english that's why we wanted to make wiki leaks documents available to all russians online so we set about spotting reports of interest to people living in russia and countries of the commonwealth of independent states such reporters are either fed to translation websites or the people themselves translate them after receiving them via email russian pirates have launched a similar site called leaks in largely mimics what assumptions been doing it with

the leaks a few leaks have already been made public. what the informers will post their reports on the internet site we will know absolutely nothing about them we see the whole thing as a black box churning out documents from time to time but there's also a big question though is how are they going to send their stuff. in the summer of twenty ten songs gathered a circle of accredited journalists for wiki leaks these people were supposed to get the news before it would appear on the site by doing this sounds wanted to secure the leaks and give them greater exposure. the first russian publication to disclose wiki leaks data was the magazine russian reporter at the same time other magazines and newspapers had also received such invitations but decided against getting involved in wiki leaks risky business. at

what is clearly the newspapers running a triple race first they may have suspected that they might get involved in somebodies gamble considering that the material had not been properly assessed second they may have had their doubts about how that would affect relations with the us embassy and third they may have been worried by the uncertain prospects of relations with the russian leadership or filled with terril which chiefly concerned russia was published by russian journalists in parallel with the site the first weeks or a record number of visitors people were hungry for a sensational scoop additional shower frankly when we saw the first set of documents since in response to our request we didn't know how we should go about them at first glance many of them were unlikely to arouse interest you have to breed them very carefully to find something anywhere near a scoop i think some in our audience had been looking forward to wild stories about u.f.o.'s or people devouring children when they found nothing of the kind so they simply turned away from us. after the publication of the afghan dossier wiki leaks

website and its founder a song could become the world. main newsmakers the australian spent most of his spare time travelling giving interviews and taking part in different seminars with those words julian again welcome to stockholm and the four zero because. it's unlikely that julian a song speaking before the journalists of this seminar in stockholm could have full seen that in a few months he would be in jail nor would have imagined that his close companions would desert him although this visit to the swedish capital would lead to his downfall.

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future covered. by august twenty ten julian a songs have become the world's most popular media figure the wiki leaks founder savored the glory of being alone find on the sole adversary of world superpower all attempts by the us authorities to the prosecution against mr ozon scrooged unsuccessful and wiki leaks founder had tried to be legally irreproachable until he decided to attend a seminar in stone come in on. twenty ten. investigators would later establish the during his visit to sweden mr saunders met two young women. he spent the night with both of them a short while later both young women accused wiki leaks founder of sexual assault.

they went to the police primarily the discuss with the police to tell the police what they have been through and get advice or troll with you and when they tell their stories both of them separately from each other and they tell the stories to the police the police officer realized they're telling a story concerning a crime. according to daniel don't try to beg a son has always had a weakness for women we were at a conference and would have passed and he told a lot of it labor conference that he has children on every continent. swedish authorities put the songs on the international wanted list by which time the wiki leaks founder had landed in britain many describe the criminal prosecution against him as politically motivated swedish lawyers claim that it was a routine criminal case. it's nonsense it has nothing whatsoever to do with the

willies actually my two clients are very much in favor of the big leagues that's why they were attending the seminar or the lecture from you and they still are for . it is unfortunately a rather common case of sexual abuse we have these cases all over again in sweden in great britain everywhere in the world and the this is a case like any other with the difference that they suspect a person of the song. at the same time tensions inside the wiki leaks team rose to the surface a song his friend and colleague daniel don't feel like berg said he could no longer work with him he withdrew from the project along with many others it was thought i really very sorry to see the project winding up the problem is that julian is intent on cracking down on any dissenters as a matter of fact now he's one of the kind of people that we've been trying to oppose so i quit at the right moment after that negative trend had emerged within

the wiki leaks team. aside from ideological differences bergen a song also had a personal conflict when berg introduced a son to his future wife. disapproved of his choice. i fell in love quite immediately and i posed to him as my friend and the only thing he had to recommend was that i should try to find as much dirt on her as i can get so that if she annoys me i have something in my hands against her. and that was a really weird recommendation but the loss of half of his team was not the most serious consequence of the split for a song much more important was an archive of three thousand unpublished secret materials which bergen the other defectors took away with them for bag this data is a form of insurance. daniel had all the reason in the world to fear it was enraged

by his betrayal persones had even threatened his former friend he once said that if i ever put any sources in danger. it would hunt me down and kill me. and he even repeated that threat a couple of times but what's other is that estimable. on december the first twenty ten into polish and a warrant for a soldier's arrest a week later the wiki leaks chief voluntarily showed up at a police station where they arrested him a week later he was released on bail and the criminal charges against him were never dropped. but thank you. to all the people around the world. that's what i see while being away. shortly after he was bailed a sound shocked the world with a statement that it was now the turn for the banks to share their secrets to

announce the publication on wiki leaks of huge volumes of information on private accounts in swiss banks. on january the seventeenth two thousand and eleven a former employee of the julius by a bank window film publicly handed over to a sony to disks with information on the personal bank accounts but i want it and that's all it will be complete about it again. in order to. investigate it and making a decision on it. yes works as a journalist for the financial times specializing in the subject of bank information theft investigated the two thousand and seven purchase by the german government of disks with information from anonymous sources on german citizens hiding their money abroad. there are seven hundred or seven hundred seventy german

names on it someone are to go to court all of them had to pay money back in the year two thousand and eight the german state court because of this and the more than run billion of europe that. the method proved to be effective even depositors whose names were not on the desk feared possible criminal prosecution of thousands of germans who preferred not to wait for a subpoena paid their taxes in twenty ten angela merkel's government once again purchased from anonymous sources another disk with similar information on deposits of german citizens in swiss banks it helped her to return almost two billion euros to the state treasury and many consider these tax stories to be a direct consequence of the wiki leaks effect. that are comparable because on one site where people sell that are to us or lots of money for millions of money on the other side you have wiki leaks and so there's

a small profit so there are people who their intention is different exposures in the bank secrets subsequently transformed wiki leaks into a completely nontransparent organization in financial terms but songs is the only person who knows everything about the whereabouts of the huge donations made to the organization. but there were other money trails where no one you know actually other than julian where it came from and what it was used for and i think as a just natural if you're working in a team or maybe five to ten people. there's no need to have secrets you know at least in fields like that. and when you ask someone what's happening to money in australia and how much money is there any and that person tells you or you don't have to know. after his rift with assad bird wrote a book titled inside wiki leaks and launched his own website called openly but begs

site is different he will operate according to the black box principle the website will receive material from anonymous informers but will dispatch them to traditional media outlets for further publication it will be impossible to enter the website and read the information first hand. everything is simple and transparent bag wants to ditch spy schemes publish it and the south advertising which is sound seems to like so much is emerging as what julian bond still create because it characterizes. somewhere between the hacker and freedom of information and the james bond of modern times and this is very appealing and this is what people think they should. but this is exactly one of the reasons why we left the project because it has become more all and. then all the actual information. that.

was. self of ministration was introduced to all universities in china zero after the revolution the students didn't have time to attend classes in the first weeks following the coup that they were too busy debating how to protect the progress made in the january revolution. you're afraid that the only solution you didn't succeed in all its goals. your participation and your stupid thinking but it's just simply being every day about the new government had me and. i would be just the us to succeed if you did that evolution. each of these students took part in the overthrow of the ben ali regime many of them took to the streets after they had read information on corruption scrupulously

accumulated on the website cuny leaks. we can see that when early in the regime of . the first victim. of this you could exist astrobiology his friend an assistant. or the ones who had prepared the ground for that revolution they like to walk in the old port town of bizet or pirates and use it as a stopping place hundreds of years ago that unique founders like in themselves to such pirates of centuries past. the more pirates but maybe because words from. freedom for transparency and so for human rights and for democracy both internet activists agree that julian assange invented a truly effective method of influencing real politics by the internet as a proof maybe it was. the leaks that have been published. by

wiki leaks played for all we don't know we cannot may. be it was but it does help. in. these instead of the corruption of the family and close language of the family sure we. are not far distant and it's. a hard to hide certain things. later that same day the streets of community has swelled with crowds of people again. but this time around they were not protesting it was a celebration in egypt president hosni mubarak had been forced to step down under the pressure from millions of people another internet revolution and to keep its goal the revolution new tsunami that rose inch musea has already swept across several countries and it's anyone's guess who shows it may reach in the near future

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