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Email says that no, it is the governments of Saudi and Qatar that have been funding ISIS.
Even the U.S. government agrees that some Saudi figures have been supporting ISIL, or ISIS.
Big Brother is home. He is installed in the item you just dragged home from the Apple store.
If you look at the history of the FBI, it has become effectively America's political police.
The corruption in reporting starts very early. It's like the police reporting on the police.
That is vaguely conspiratorial, in a networking sense. We have published their meeting notes.
Those who are repeatedly passive in the face of injustice soon find their character corroded.
To be alive as a human being is to know, in the same way as it is to have a heart that beats.
It's the world without sunlight, but I haven't seen sunlight in so long, I don't remember it.
Nothing. There's nothing you can do. As soon as you do something you'll no-longer be average.
We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage.
The attack on the truth by war begins long before war starts and continues long after a war ends.
In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic.
There is unity in the oppression. There must be absolute unity and determination, in the response.
Bitcoin actually has the balance and incentives right, and that is why it is starting to take off.
If we are to produce a more civilized society, a more just society, it has to be based on the truth.
A lot of people who work for WikiLeaks have the same instinct as me: If you are pushed you push back.
Every time we witness an act that we feel to be unjust and do not act, we become a party to injustice.
Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.
The goal is justice, the method? is transparency. It's important not to confuse the goal and the method.
I found in investigative journalism it is always best, if you have any language skills, not to admit them.
Hillary Clinton represents a whole network of people and a network of relationships with particular states.
Where they couldn't pick holes in our arguments they would drive horses and carriages through my character.
It's interesting that Swiss banks also hide their assets from the Swiss by using offshore bank structuring.
Whistleblowers often take very significant efforts to bring us material and often at very significant risks.
The aim of Wikileaks is to achieve just reform around the world and do it through the mechanism of transparency.
The supply of leaks is very large. It's helpful for us to have more people in this industry. It's protective to us.
Has WikiLeaks been forced to do one thing rather than another in response to resource constraints? Yes. Constantly.
So far, we have a perfect record of WikiLeaks having never revealed information that exposed a source over 10 years.
Under Hillary Clinton, the world's largest ever arms deal was made with Saudi Arabia, [worth] more than $80 billion.
I'm thinking of when the Qatari representative was given five minutes with Bill Clinton for a million dollar cheque.
WikiLeaks has revealed some hard truths about the Iraq and Afghan wars and broken stories about corporate corruption.
Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform.
The Clinton camp has been able to project that kind of neo-McCarthy hysteria: that Russia is responsible for everything.
If you want a vision of the future, imagine Washington-back ed Google Glasses strapped onto vacant human faces - forever.
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.
In my situation, frankly, I'm a bit institutionalised - this [the embassy] is the world .. it's visually the world [for me].
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
I don't like the word transparency; cold dead glass is transparent. I prefer education or understanding, which are more human.
You can't publish a paper on physics without the full experimental data and results; that should be the standard in journalism.
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.
As always, most media aligns with the presumptive winner even though their claimed societal virtue is to investigate those in power.
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.
Cablegate is 3,000 volumes of material. It is the greatest intellectual treasure to have entered into the public record in modern times.
The difficulty that WikiLeaks has, of course, is that we can't go around speculating on who our sources are. That would be irresponsible.
There's, under Obama, an epidemic has developed of abusing national security laws to crack down on legitimate use of the First Amendment.
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.
Reality is an aspect of property. It must be seized. And investigative journalism is the noble art of seizing reality back from the powerful.
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.
Why is it that govt employees makes the best spouses? Because afterthey come back from work, they are not tired and they already readthe newspapers.