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biggest. going to be a democracy is wiki leaks the dream of an idealist or a tool to manipulate global politics to him words on and on anger. what motivates julian assange does he want to change the world or is he just seeking fame does he out on his own or is someone else behind wiki leaks and will it whistle blowing revelations change the world forever. kunis january twentieth the city with millions of residents descends into chaos thousands of protesters take to the streets in downtown china's 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. was the events that took place in the north african country in january were immediately dubbed the jasmine revolution but the two missing in couso has another name for the wiki revolution. this man is a professor at one of the universities in tunis. as a political activist he prefers to be known by his nickname. 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 kinda leaks he began posting material concerning choosier from diplomatic cables in arabic and french the cables were made public by julian sound of twenty ten. at the first time with seventy seven thousand documents and then we've got. the sensation as i said it was really very very very interesting to note the true

facts that the us government is waiting. to leave the us government was. really not support the finale for human rights violation. discontent with a president who had lingered in power for too long had been brewing into his ear for quite some time public anger erupted after students mohamad was easy set himself on fire and publish stories of runaway corruption eroding the top echelon of the two new zealand government. after when the. i came home and did what he did. i think tunisia 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 places and is the primary cables for the people. they were actually

right and not trusting in thinking that there was something that was corrupt. daniel don't steinberg's 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 has. yes my name is daniel smith this is julius sons and we're here to make a short presentation about what we can extract what we don't yield on steinberg could be described as co-creator of the internet's most scandalous web site that i gather he understands took the idea of creating a site where any person can safely post secret information anonymously and made it a reality with you weeks i heard about wiki leaks in september two thousand and seven and all them but with all seven i first got in touch with julian. he was already working on we can exit on the right so i asked if they needed any help. and

started working on a couple of topics. young registered the week 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 cryptome dot org site for publishing classified material secrecy is a. good marker for you. it is way overdue and so threats from the other three are coming from your side about 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 lease lives off donations and they were inconsistent at the time. or two years we'll or one and a half years we tried to build up we can he said as a project we published a lot of documents and try to get funding and it was all very difficult for us so

we have all put in 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 would take us authors of welcome you know and i will show you the facility this bunker in stockholm was built to protect swedish army personnel from a nuclear attack telltale reminders of its original purpose can be seen all over the place. we're digitally this type was actually in submarines and so they are german submarines from the beginning and the alarm in case of trouble the alarm starts and alarmist.

today behind a nice thick walls and heavy doors the reserves carrying thousands of websites some of them store wiki leaks data. this is the cabinet you feel down here to see these two these two to be critics over swedish noise provide better protection against attacks on wiki leaks than the bunker's malls or its security system yellow through the roof or becoming higher while you must say you are being fake it must be. to make it a material therefore we are told that the. assumption is team man to be very careful about the security of their service after this video was posted on their site jefferson city did. the right.

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 to three years after the tragedy wiki leaks published the video sparking a massive international right now one that and shows you errors in the internal the additional mechanism for the united states or it shows you that reports about what who is insurgent and who is not an incident that appear in the media following the bit where people were killed cannot be trusted several months later in the summer of twenty ten the site and its partner outlets published the afghan dossier all one . wiki leaks itself called the afghanistan war diaries they contained eighty thousand on the small two 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 of war ninety three thousand reports and almost every instant

serious incident u.s. military i was given with authority and location over. the soon as the afghan dossier was made public asuncion his team source to instant fame but scathing criticism soon followed the most common accusation 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 mostly period you know already where we're looking at the national interest. and hold back people being. for the better because they have the support of but. it's not just that maybe they can think of israel if urged the white house i thought they were incinerated it's. a white house and

if that request. every week once a week we're meeting in this cafe here's the party leadership we've just had a half day meeting says we're under the leadership electoral barry has taken over the party leadership. we're wrapping up breakfast and discussing how to live over the next couple years. swedish internet pirates have no office of their own that's why they meet in this cafe in stockholm the movement has held wiki leaks greatly by sharing its knowledge on creating a growing network of mira sites as well as decoding and processing information. when we step in to support we collate in august of last year they will not us know as they are no joy 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 the wealth in. brought wiki leaks the wiki leaks domain online one that went offline during that hectic week of information. 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 of launched a similar site called leaks it largely mimics what a song has been doing it wiki 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. so the big question though is how are they going to send their stuff. recently in the summer of twenty ten a song together the 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 of the same time other magazines and newspapers had also received such invitations but decided against getting involved in wiki leaks risky business. but that it is clearly the newspapers running a triple risk 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 of the. material which chiefly concerned russia was published by russian journalists in parallel with the site the first week so a record number of visitors people were hungry for a sensational scoop additional shower frankly when we saw the first set of documents sense 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 rate 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 car and so they simply turned away from us. after the publication of the afghan dossier with the links website and its founder of songs to 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 most welcome to stockholm and the floor is yours 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 or the business it to the swedish capital would lead to his downfall. wealthy british style examples and that's not on. the. markets why not scandals.

find out what's really happening to the global economy in the kinds of reports on r.t. . by august twenty ten curious on to become the world's most popular media figure the wiki leaks founder savor the glory of being alone fine to undersell adversary to the world simple power all attempts by the u.s. authorities to launch a prosecution against mr ozon proved unsuccessful the wiki leaks founder had tried to be legally every protocol until he decided to attend a seminar in stockholm in august twenty ten. investigators would later establish than 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 the wiki leaks founder of sexual assault. they went to the police

primarily to discuss with the police to tell the police what they have been through and to get advice or try would do and when they tell their stories both of them separately from each other and they tell their stories to the police the police officer realized they're telling a story concerning a crime. according to daniel don't shut bag a son has always had a weakness for women we were at a conference and would have passed and he told a lot of people at our 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 wiki leaks actually my two clients are very much in favor of the leaks that's why

they were attending the seminar or the lecture from you and they still all we can think it is unfortunately a rather common case of sexual abuse we have these cases all over again in sweden great britain everywhere in the world and this is a case like any other with the difference they have to suspect a person of the song. at the same time tensions inside the wiki leaks team rose to the surface songes friend and colleague daniel don't feel like burke said he could no longer work with him in withdrew from the project along with many others it was all 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 virgina songe also had

a personal conflict when barry introduced the sons to his future wife. disapproved of his choice. i fell in love quite immediately and i told julian as my friend about it 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 of the loss of half of his team was not the most serious consequence of the split for us only 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 a son it was enraged by his betrayal soames had even threatened his former friend he once that if i were to ever put any sources in danger. it would hunt me down and

kill me. and he even repeated that threat a couple of times the wats others that passed them. on december the first twenty ten into polish and a warrant for sunday'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. the whole people around the world. let me. watch it wide screen while being away. shortly after he was bailed assan shocked the world with a statement that it was now the turn for the banks to share their secrets denounced 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 two discs with information on the personal bank accounts but i want. to know if. i could ever get it. in order that. i could 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 some of our to go to court all of them had to pay money back and the year two thousand and eight the german state court because of this of the more than one

billion of europe that. the method proved to be effective even depositors whose names were not on the desk field possible criminal prosecution thousands of germans who preferred not to wait for a subpoena pay their taxes. in twenty ten uncle america's government once again purchased from anonymous sources another desk with similar information on deposits of german citizens in swiss banks it helped her to return almost two billion euros to the state treasury many consider these tax stories to be a direct consequence over the wiki leaks effect. not really comparable because on the one side the people or sell that are to us for lots of money or millions of money on the other side you have weekly and so this is non profit so there are people who are their intention is different but exposing 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 no one your actually other than julian where it came from and what it was used for and i think as it is just natural if you're working in a team of maybe five to ten people at the time. there's no need to have secrets you know at least in fields like that. and when you ask someone what's happening to the money in australia and how much money is there any and the person tells you or you don't have the will. after his rift with the sound verb wrote a book titled inside wiki leaks and launched his own web site called open leaks but begs site is different it 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 peg wants to get spy schemes publicity and the south advertising which is sound seems to like so much this image as what julian wants to create because it characterizes. the. somewhere between the hacker and freedom of information and the james bond of modern times and this is very appealing you know this is what people think they should donate so this is exactly one of the reasons why we left the project because it has become more about this all claims. then all the actual informational. that there.

was that. the ministration was introduced to the old universities and after the revolution the students didn't have time to attend classes in the first weeks following the coup but they were too busy debating how to protect the progress made in the january revolution. beautifully that the only solution you can succeed in all its goals. your purpose e.p.t. and your state but thinking by discussing the every day about the new government had me and do we make our business. it's just succeed only if you do it evolution. each of the 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 cheney leaks. you can see that

when early in the region of. the first victim. of this a few kicks astrobiology his friend an assistant sonny ben gabi it were the ones who had prepared the ground for that revolution they learned to walk in the old port town of bizet or pirates and used it as a stopping place hundreds of years ago the junior leagues founders like in themselves to such pirates of centuries past there are not any more pirates but 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 fire the internet the profile of us. the leaks that have been published. by we played for all we don't know we cannot name as a big it was but it does help at the con fair and come and go let's. about

the corruption of the family had been ali and closed down but of the. sure we. are not very different and there is. a hard to hide certain things. later that same day the streets of kuzio 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 had achieved its goal the revolution the tsunami that rose engine is here 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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