a lot of young people know nothing about julian as. you know to julian assange do you know anything about this man and what happened to him do you want to know bad bad 10 years ago. wiki leaks released a whole lot of information about the crimes that were being committed by western governments they were all crimes but mostly the us governments and particularly the murder of innocent civilians come on. board that country just pretend and this is the 1st and i think thing about it kind of forced us to acknowledge it's you know we couldn't ignore him. he's an idealist he's on a mission he's on

a mission to harm. people with information. you can excuse me. but this comes with the prime. loan isn't being charitable he's made while 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. kabhie any reason to suggest that he's trying to

. i don't think you can really understand julian assange. or wiki leaks without seeing an aspect of his life that 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 hers 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. it 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 and with. this square in central melbourne. this is the historic town hall and it was the site along with some other sort town halls in melbourne. and other members of that technology community were here in their late teens and early 20 stopping for computer bits and exchanging ideas information about how to experiment with hardware and software. in the.

us. computer. memory and understanding. i didn't. just write 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. on october the 16th 1989 nasa was attacked by what was known as the way virus it 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 julius development as a young adult. as a young man. a go are actually. nick and i am orders wizard because he would. be hard to come up with

a new 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 actually nation 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. cup of tea. and i'm sure to. fastened 6 or something like

that quite early on you right and joey and said. i'd like to stop and we can. learn this week he would concern it so it's only. when we reduce the torment as an anonymous from people who wonder to me information. that information coming. did you try to warn him about anything at that time. no one. and young man on the cusp of life you don't care warnings to say well how can i help. what i've always taken nature's aphorism. to hide leave diner's for me. to leave dangers don't creep around the place being frightened of shadows.

do what you have to do and face the consequences as the best you can. that's me my god i owe my life. this is. it was. not it. is. 60 or 2560. that we had burst out why positions so. i 1st heard about with nixon you know aside. from the helicopter food chain in iraq the famous was he was where we saw. the helicopter shoot people on the ground

. but all of your average time on. the helicopter shot up some civilians and in the process shot to his job just to local war his job and they also shot up some children in a car. mine are. now in on their growing around the area going to. war in. american military personnel misidentified civilians as rebels. from overhead and it looked as though one of the men had a gun. but it was just a reuters camera man holding. the day i saw the collateral but mortar b.t.o.

i said if we're not for get enough for again because i escape it was what the 1st time as i was screaming loud at my own feast this slowly or sour us with dissed emotional detachment as they were playing video games and me with the lives of people in 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 one. day off to 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 and i'm nobody. but 2 children well. they were in a van when their father approached the scene of the shooting to help thomas horn we have individual going. to monitor. during. a fire. in order. that 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 it was the young. army officer who went to the van and discovered that there were 2 children at that

were wounded and he said the little girl couldn't blink because her eyes were full of grass and he tried to cross from her eyes when he spoke to his supervisor and wanted to take her to a decent hospital he was told wash out 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. during son 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

accountable. i'm going to fulfill the repeated promises. to the people and promise to be you know we've all but the truth. is. pretty. much. now you want to. know.

all. i can link up my yeah. i can't show you my face but i'm going to teach you my story in 1993 was sentenced to death. to charge keep its capital murder even though he didn't have the gun didn't pull the trigger didn't intend to kill anybody imagine living in your bathroom for that week with the sound of a 23. act out that had served to be. confined within 4 green walls he finds using. can help him to leave dents room.

2 months ago most people never read the site. here is original and it's annoying founder julian assange the only analyst on credible revelation on the wiki one site she admits to move on with he's going to use after collateral julian assange revealed his identity and was known i mean it was front page news all over the world at that point. only to julian assange to become a hold global topic but he'd found a way to publish classified information and made it available to anyone who wanted to share as 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. it enabled the

whistleblower who were at low cost with just the right couldn't. use of the right tools to anonymously. blow the whistle by transmitting like large amounts of data. the day we released over 287. documenting the reality of an international mass surveillance industry. who here has an eye for. movie and has a black berry. he uses g.-mail. well you're all screwed. what is this place and where were all those files actually kept . in the cloud it's somewhere.

julian magically. comes. digitalize ration and information and before we. know when someone called you know songs not on the door from my own club i was quite pleased to see him i was quite keen that we would have somebody who was making the news. my name's form smith i'm a journalist. but more i run something called the frontline club 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 knocked 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 here. he was up here and we had a podium we had that podium and we had it here 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 from this morning 40. 40 pages about this topic. also 3 cars lead in the spiegel 17 pages. just a couple of months after the video of the baghdad helicopter attack against civilians was published yet more revelations appeared this time it was the afghanistan and iraq dossier as. the afghanistan and iraq does he goes 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 in the area might be things they've seen or exciting they experienced on their shift. patrol so it was almost a sort of a very detailed war diary. by the americans and the british. army that it could be so informative. because it was a huge data sets 400000 classified reports field reports by the u.s. army this is the most accurate description of the whole that is it was being released into storage and we have counted now 120. 1000 sunni triangle teams in the war is nearly no street corner in baghdad that didn't have a body found that being killed 3 violence in one form or another. but what we found out from iraq and afghanistan dosia is the u.s.

under its own is allegedly under reported civilian casualties prisoners of war was subjected to violent acts of torture of u.s. military personnel who were reportedly involved in child prostitution. and you have published this publishing secret and 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 we here a 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 war and one of the main criticisms that's being leveled at you is that you have published the villages that the names and in 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. yes but the taliban what's your response to that there was some peace to mostly be a paedophile ring where we're looking at the issue seriously to see whether that is true we approached the white house to austin for assistance in reviewing material before we published the white house in order except that request they always say oh they have blood on their hands and they get people in danger but i think if anyone would have been killed because they would have dragged to the person in front of the camera all proved it taken against them or sold i think it's just a blatant lie is it possible that the 1st tranche of dollars have 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 that. i mean killing

a soldier and wiki leaks they were bushwhacking through thick forests to try and figure out how to do this. via afghanistan and iraq don't see just what the biggest leak they have a plan shown along the tone of war crimes allegedly perpetrated by the us can be generalized. 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 i didn't know at that point environmental. wanted to meet with me and they met a. person who spoke with a very strong australian accent and he told me that they had a problem program of they wanted to do a project. when we met. my in the. feeling was that this was. completely outlandish and 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 can see helicopter gun 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 have fallen into wiki leaks hands. this time correspondence from the united states diplomatic service. 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 the 28th 2010 it contains u.s. diplomatic correspondence from $966.00 to 2010 and includes 100000 documents marked confidential and $15000.00 marked secret. you have to understand the scale of this release of information 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 interest 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 of them come to the u.s. ambassador and they ask for services for 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 is going to stop could you please help us there by inviting 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 saw them the year we found out the. swedish politicians and swedish shrimp public servants they're cutting 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 they believe every war that is thought of. as being a result of. mediocrity what does that mean. that means

basically populations by market. and populations have to be fooled and will. be. treated as an enemy combatant which really should be closed down permanently indecisively didn't reduce any broken every little unit big deal it was like a hotel it was a. going on and no one in the service was not good at it so given a lot of good elysia. julian was at his height of popularity when sweden. vats he attracted. a mostly. it's understandable that he would be attractive to young men and he's. a young man and she said his. is very high and that noble

noble ambitions so that made him even more attract. take. this number you would not a movie star but in your circles one is complete and you can do for the one you much for that was a little with 3 minutes to get in there and when you. look. at. the white english sort of preview here already one of the it seems that you have a you know my esteem situation. city. police.

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