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Speigel International publishes an interview with Julian Assange. Some selections:
With a banking blockade, WikiLeaks had been cut off from more than 90 percent of its finances. The blockade happened in a completely extrajudicial manner. We took legal measures against the blockade and we have been victorious in the courts, so people can send us donations again.
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Yes, a few months back we launched a next-generation submission system and also integrated it with our publications.
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We are drowning in material now. Economically, the challenge for WikiLeaks is whether we can scale up our income in proportion to the amount of material we have to process....
Please imagine for a moment the German government complains about being spied on and the Americans just say: Okay, we will give you more stuff, which they have stolen from France. When the French complain, they get more stuff, which was stolen from Germany. The NSA spends a lot of resources obtaining information, but throwing a few crumbs to France and Germany when they start whining about being victims costs nothing, digital copies cost nothing.
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The British GCHQ has its own department for such methods called JTRIG. They include blackmail, fabricating videos, fabricating SMS texts in bulk, even creating fake businesses with the same names as real businesses the United Kingdom wants to marginalize in some region of the world, and encouraging people to order from the fake business and selling them inferior products, so that the business gets a bad reputation....
Australia, my home country, has also announced a criminal investigation against us this week for revealing a gag order used to cover up a major international bribery case involving heads of state.
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The transition of the German public opinion is interesting. A study in 2010 found that 88 percent of Germans appreciate the US government; after the disclosure about the NSA, the rate dropped to 43 percent... At the same time, German public support for WikiLeaks is significant and even quite mainstream....
James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, formally approved the policy to target the German government. There were three areas that were targeted in the material we have published so far: German political affairs, European policies and economic affairs.
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Yes, you can observe real policies -- that the United States government was very interested in the idea that Germany would propose a greater role for China in the International Monetary Fund, for example. An executive decision can be taken: Kill that idea of Merkel's before it learns to crawl, because the US sees China helping Europe as a threat to its dominance.
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Over the last two years, we already have become specialists for the three extremely important trade agreements, the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), the Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TP). WikiLeaks has become the place to go to leak parts of these agreements that are now under negotiation. These agreements are a package that the US is using to reposition itself in the world against China by constructing a new grand enclosure.
(Score: -1, Troll) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday July 21 2015, @03:12AM
Bing caches kiddie porn images even when their original servers are long dead.
I report this in an article that I posted to my wensite on Monday, July 6. That Friday I gave the link to a Deputy Sheriff. "Shouldn't you give this to the FBI?"
I asked her to find someone who could investigate; she promised she would. It has been two weeks but just now I tried a "site:" search of a domain that has been dead for years yet all the explicit images of child sexual abuse were still there.
I puzzled over whether Satya Nadella crossed the FBI's palms with silver, eventually to conclude that they devote all their time to the experimental determination of how many Federal agents can fit in a telephone booth.
If you want to read the article search my name. I use includes to link it from every page on my site.
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(Score: 2) by shortscreen on Tuesday July 21 2015, @04:05AM
This is my recommendation. Don't do searches for CP.
Haven't you ever heard phrases like "strict liability," "shooting the messenger," or "don't talk to cops?"
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 21 2015, @04:17AM
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday July 21 2015, @04:26AM
The OP wasnt about chil pornography; it was about Microsoft making a lot of money by distributing chil pornography.
That kind of thing is what wikileaks is all about.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 21 2015, @08:18AM
(Score: 3, Funny) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday July 21 2015, @10:13AM
For two weeks I have been blowing the whistle on Microsoft.
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(Score: 2) by moondrake on Tuesday July 21 2015, @02:23PM
The problem is that for most of our unsophisticated minds, the associative link between an interview of a whistle-blower and you blowing the whistle on MS is rather tenuous.
We think its pretty much OT here....
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 21 2015, @05:40AM
Narcissism is a major component of schizophrenia. Posting journals that are easy for other people to ignore would not serve the purpose.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Tuesday July 21 2015, @08:47AM
And if MDC keeps going on about chili porn, well, I don't know where it will end. I once knew someone into chili competition. A world to itself, it would seem. But he did relate that once he was busy chopping up the halepenos, when suddenly he has the urge to piss. Forgot to what his hands well, beforehand! A lesson to all of us here, do not google CP, and do not forget to wash you hands.
But WikiLeaks! Great! Only burns in the right places!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 21 2015, @12:57PM
FTFY
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 21 2015, @03:01PM
But he didn't google it. He binged it! :-)