in christening and maybe even 40 years ago it was simply evaporated into north sea at the compressor will think. we're still in an era of resource colonialism again this is a big risk and the one big thing that could really inhibit the kind of electric vehicle revolution that a lot of us want to see is if we can't resource the battery components in a sustainable ethical way then it's not going to be a successful revolution. a

lot of young people know nothing about julian assange. you know to julian assange do you know anything about this man and what happened to him do you want to know about your bad 10 years ago. wiki leaks with a stockholm lot of information about the crimes that were being committed by western governments play war crimes but mostly the us governments and particularly the murder of innocent civilians. or that country just pretend this is the 1st and they didn't think about the economics it kind of forced us to acknowledge it's you know we couldn't ignore it. he's an idealist he's on a mission he's on a mission to harm. people to information. to respond.

but this comes with the crimes i'm alone isn't being charged. he's been well he was in the ecuadorian embassy for 8 years 7 or 8 in. a long time he's spending time in prisons basically and that now he's being fair many months in the present. there are a lot of people who don't want him in prison a lot of the very powerful this department is conducting a thorough aggressive investigation to determine how this leak occurred to identify the person or persons responsible. person. and i think that's what he's facing the dishes trying to much of the old village life will wait stateside. obviously reason to suggest that he's not he's

trying to it's the crimes that. i don't think you can really understand julian assange. or wiki leaks without seeing an aspect of his life that formed him and that was absolutely here in melbourne and it formed him not only in terms of his ideas. his personality his expertise but also his conceptual thinking about forming software projects including working. so melbourne in the late eighty's and early ninety's became the center of the a strain underground which included others and experimenters and also there's not just in the sense of people who broke into things illegally but also people who

just experimented with. who didn't take long for australia's hacking community to embrace the young. teenagers they spent most of their time online but did occasionally venture out. in the square in central melbourne. this is the historic town hall and it was the site along with some other historic town halls in melbourne. and other members of that technology community were here in their late teens and early twenty's stopping for computer bits and exchanging ideas information about how to experiment with hardware and software. in the. computer. capacity.

used to memory understanding took hold. and i didn't. just write that he would pay for a short while. one of the world's most. it's very interesting the hacker mentality from this time period they wanted the thrill of getting into the system that was ted. and the more procedures the in the institution the more thrilled they got so if they could break into now such. things were the smartest people stay with people who had put man on the moon really if you could break into their systems then you could prove to yourself you're a 17 year old boy you 2 are very smart. the u.s.

space agency nasa is one of the victims of the melbourne computer hacking syndicate american investigators including the f.b.i. contacted a strain authorities with a suspicions. of the $16989.00 nassau was attacked by what was known as the went virus that caused a space shuttle launch in florida to be postponed and was traced to australian hackers in melbourne the wenck worm was one of the 1st ever worms that had been written and it was certainly the 1st politically motivated wireman that carried a political message that message was a quote from the midnight oil song and that quote was you talk of times of peace for all and then prepare for war. this thing that was the way. it emerged from a sort of deep dark. forest you got a glimpse of it and then disappeared again and the authors have never been found

although some see this might be one of jewel in a songes dealings. people have lots of different views on these things. julian was very lucky growing up in that although he grew up in a fairly poor family canonically it was very rich intellectually. julian's father is a very clever and creative person and quite sensitive i think he's been enormously important to julia's development as a young adult. as a young man joanne was. a daughter her choice. is nick and i am worth wizard because she would always. come up with

a near approach to things your way of looking at things. what a number of truck person have said to me is that. they get a different perspective on the world from the systems they've been in and that's because they are able to see the actual information these are. directly contradicting what an organization may say publicly or someone a politician may say publicly they understand that the public is being told something that is just not just a little lie often it's a very big lie that helped maybe develop enjoins mind. the super importance of media organizations being able to report accurately on information. and result my players and having a cup of tea. or 2. fastened 6 or something like that quite early on then you're

right and julian said. i'd like to start and we can. learn this week he would concern itself with 2 leaks. and we would use 3 total as an anonymous from people who want to talk to me information and that information. did you try to warn him about anything at that time. no one would you and young man on the cusp of life you don't care warnings who say well how can i help. what i've always taken nature's aphorism. to hide leave diner's for me. to leave dangerous we don't creep around the place being frightened of shadows. do what you have to do and then face the consequences as the best you can. that's me my god i

owe my life. to see. you. not. 60 or 2560. that we at 1st out why positions so. i 1st heard about with nixon you know aside. from the helicopter footage in iraq the famous was he was where we saw. the helicopter shoot people on the ground. but of all of your average come on out.

there on. the helicopter shot up some civilians and in the process shot to his job this 2 local forces chose and they also shot up some children in a car. or 2 minor. you know you know when you're growing around the area. or even more. american military personnel misidentified civilians and rebels. from overhead it looked as though one of the men had a gun. but it was just a reuters camera man holding along. the way. that they saw the collateral but martyr b.t.o. said he as we know for get. us for again because they escape it was one of the 1st

time as i was screaming loud at my own feast this slowly or sour us with dist emotional detachment as they were playing video games and meeting with the live of people in such a cool way. here is actual shocking video footage fact irrefutable evidence of what happened and what has been described to me by one retired military person actually here in australia as undoubtedly a war crime i want to welcome i want to go after the shooting of july 13th 2007 u.s. military commanders justified the attack claiming that its troops had been in battle with hostile forces guy that might serve over. approaching

a big nobody. but 2 children well. they were in a van when their father approached the scene of the shooting to help to mr horn we have individual going. to monmouth. county. where. it was really fascinating for me was when i saw an interview with an american soldier who was there on that spot after they. killed them and shot them and then was the young. officer who went to the van and discovered that there were 2 children and that will wounded he said the little girl couldn't blink because her eyes were full of grass and he tried to

cross from our eyes when he spoke to his supervisor and wanted to take her to a decent hospital he was told washout you know for john up. to the 1st time we understood. the civilian casualties the innocent people who were killed in both afghanistan and iraq and this was all kept from the public. doing sun she showed real bravery in being willing to publish frankly and fearlessly that is idio and i think that there are people within the u.s. military who have never forgiven him for it. that helicopter attack resulted in 12 deaths 2 children were wounded no one from the american military has ever been held

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do you know the moon through put in your circles one of. the books for the. minutes in the middle of the. white in good order produce your order in the eastern. europe where it seems to trace. that. to months ago most of them i'm sorry. to hear it is her children suffering from. the only in the comfort of the revelation found the easy one scientology and.

some of the least of the this is. after. julian assange revealed his identity had was known i mean it was front page news all over the world at that point. julian assange has become a hot political topic but he'd found a way to publish classified information and made it available to anyone who wanted to share someone else's secrets. the idea of developing an anonymous digital dropbox and applying it to a media organization that is wiki leaks that was the 1st people hadn't really done that before that was that was julian assange. enabled the whistleblower who were. low cost with just the right. use of the right tools to anonymously. blow the whistle by transmitting like large amounts of data. today we release over

$287.00 files documenting the reality of the international mass surveillance industry. here has. been has a blackberry. he uses e-mail. well you're all screwed. what is this place and where were all those files actually kept . the talent is somewhere. julian magically brought together. computers digitalize asian and information and put before the public. when someone called you know songs knocked on the door from my club and i was quite

pleased to see him i was quite keen that we would have somebody who was making the news. my name's phone smith no i'm a journalist. but more i run something called the front line from which i founded which is a press club and. it all happened in this room i mean julian literally turned off and knocked on the door and literally only announced he knocks on the door 2 days before that press conference saying i want a press conference on julian assange quite literally and so we arrange the press conference for him and it was on a monday morning he was standing by him. and he was up here and we had a podium we have a podium and we had a head and he was standing here and it's from this position he raised up the guardian front page. and you know that's when the whole thing started so this is the guardian for. this morning 40. 40 pages about this

topic. also agree currently in bush legal 17 pages. just a couple of months after the video of the baghdad helicopter attack against civilians was published yet mullen revelations appeared this time it was the afghanistan and iraq dossier as. the afghanistan and iraq does the us classified pentagon files on u.s. and allied military activity in afghanistan and iraq from 2004 to 2009. these were logs that were written by members of the military who might be out at the front door but trolling an area and might be things they've seen or thing they experienced on their shift or patrol so it was almost a sort of. a very detailed war diary. by the americans and the british in but it didn't occur to me that it could be so informative. the because it was

a huge data sets 400000 plus 5 reports field reports by the u.s. army this is the most accurate description of a war that is it was being released into the story we are counted now 122000 soon casualties in the war is nearly no street corner in baghdad didn't have a body found that being killed 3 violence in one form or another for. what we found out from iraq and afghanistan dossiers the u.s. and its allies allegedly under reported civilian casualties prisoners of war was subjected to violent acts of torture the us military personnel were reportedly involved in child prostitution. when you have publishers publishing secrets the government starts losing control of the narrative

that had a narrative in iraq. and then they lost control of that narrative because we found out the truth. that's the power of. the battlefield consequences of the release of these documents are potentially severe and dangerous for our troops our allies and afghan partners and may well damage our relationships and reputation in that key part of the world and one of the main criticisms is being leveled at you is that you have. the villages that the names and some cases the g.p.s. coordinates of people afghans who cooperated with the u.s. military and a u.s. official has called it a potential for the taliban what's your response to that there was some peace is the most appropriate where we're looking at the mission seriously to see where that is true and approach the white house to wall street her sister in syria during

before we published the war you know it's hard to accept that request they always say old they have blood on their hands and they get people in danger but i think if anyone would have been killed because they would drag the person in front of the camera all proved it taken against them soledad i think it's just a. is it possible that the 1st tranche from the afghan war logs could have been better redacted yes quite probably they could have been better protected had anyone ever done this before no there was no road back. i mean really in the sunshine wiki leaks they were bushwhacking through thick forests to try and figure out how to do this. the afghanistan and iraq with the biggest leak of a. war crimes allegedly perpetrated by the u.s. trying to. july's. no one from america's military has ever been held accountable.

and. a little bit over 10 years ago i was contacted by. a person. who or i didn't know at that point in time at all. wanted to meet with me and i met a. person who spoke with a very strong australian accent and he told me that he had a problem program of the wanted to do a project. when we met. my initial. feeling was that this was. completely outlandish that there was nothing to it so we parted way but we kept contact and a little bit later. came the publications of the collateral murder video where you could see helicopter down that's a u.s. helicopter in iraq gunning down reuters journalists on an open street and soon i

realized that he was serious about isn't ever. julian assange invited yohannes to work with him on a new collection of classified documents that had fallen into wake unix hands. this time correspondence from the united states diplomatic service. to diplomatic cables . that we can leaks published a little bit later they were a set of internal briefings if you put it this way or analysis. that all of the american diplomats. wrote and delivered back to the state department. leaked u.s. diplomatic cables published on november 28th 2010 it contains us do. magic correspondence from 966 to 2010 and includes 100000 documents marked

confidential and 15000 mocked secret. we have to understand the scale of all this release of information the if we took these cables and we printed them out into and they would go betweens in petersburg and moscow it is that much material i can give you a simple example of what was interesting in those cables in regard to sweden because i worked with the materials that were related in these documents we could see here and that's which politicians are going to come to the u.s. ambassador and they ask for services and the services they would ask for would be. we have a problem with the swedish public opinion they would say and the swedish public opinion doesn't like the war in afghanistan and they don't want us to participate in the war in afghanistan could you please help us there by inviting him some afghani women here to sweden and we'll put them on the swedish t.v.

so they can talk about the good things that we're doing there suddenly you we found out the. swedish politicians and swedish public servants undercutting the way that would be democracy is supposed to function and they're doing that together with them with you this diplomats contrary to the interests of the swedish people one of the hopeful things that i've discovered. is that really every war that is thought of. as being a result. of mediocrity what does that mean. that means basically populations. and populations have to be fooled and will. be. treated as an enemy combat. when you leave should be closed down permanently indecisively there's a rarity in any broken every law to stick with you it was what hotel of them.

were going on and on the surface it's not that sort of a good elysia. union was at his height of popularity when sweden. vats he attracted. amorous ladies. it's understandable that he would be attractive to young men and he's. a young man who has set his ambitions very high and then noble noble landis and the so that made him even more attractive. to.

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