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posted by LaminatorX on Monday July 20 2015, @11:55PM   Printer-friendly
from the Fourth-Estate dept.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.


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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday July 21 2015, @10:13AM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Tuesday July 21 2015, @10:13AM (#211861) Homepage Journal

    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

    by moondrake (2658) on Tuesday July 21 2015, @02:23PM (#211923)

    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....