BREAKING: Wikileaks' Juian Assange

in #wikileaks8 years ago (edited)

BREAKING: Julian Assange today made an audio recording and responded to questions from the Wikileaks community from inside the Ecuadorean Embassy.

ZeroHedge covers the exact details here.

Julian Assange

Full audio recording of the interview posted by /u/CommunistSynthesiser:

https://soundcloud.com/user-266487710/julian-assange-fcm16-full-interview-audio

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The first part of the audio is from the periscope stream which got cut. The second part is from the Facebook live stream.

Message from the MCF-Media Institute facebook page:

Thank you for tuning in to watch Julian Assange on FB live. We conveyed all your questions but did not have enough time to address them. We hope you enjoyed it! Also we are not allowed to record, therefore we had to remove the link.

I will post a recording of the live stream if I find one. The live stream url is now set to private https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1234878953242878

Here is 14 minutes of audio that was posted in /r/WhereIsAssange: http://picosong.com/UFwp/

The live stream showed Youmna Naufal on stage talking to Julian on the phone. The interview was for the Free Connected Minds conference in Beirut, Lebanon. Julian talked for about an hour.


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Brief summaries of some talking points. Not word for word.

  • Assange just started talking to test the audio. He sounds a bit stuffed up.

  • Assange: Have to set precedent for proof of life. Can't do balcony appearances all the time.

  • Assange: Fidel Castro has died. Discussing a current event.

  • Assange: I still have asylum at the Ecuador embassy in London

  • Assange: Hillary represents establishment. Her network sticks together power factions in US. She is very close to Saudi Arabia.

  • Assange: Ecuador cut internet without telling me. Have been reports of pressure on Ecuador. Have not told me when internet will return. Will determine over next few days.

  • Assange: Asylum status not concern from present government. Some in Ecuador gov have proposed ending asylum.

  • Assange: Wikileaks not supporting Trump. Would publish documents from either side and not withhold them.

  • Assange: A lot to resist to keep publishing. Lots of government pressure from US and UK.

  • Assange: No relationship with Russia. US intelligence have stated they can't find a relationship. US doesn't pay attention to leaks not about the US. Have released documents about Russia.

  • Assange: Hillary unified the establishment. I feel sorry for her because she is tormented by wanting power. Trump was not connected to DC political/intelligence establishment. Media acted in a disgraceful way and had to endorse Clinton.

  • Assange talking about Pentagon Papers.

  • Assange: No attempt to seek pardon from Trump administration. We had predicted that Trump wouldn't win. People could not admit to pollsters their genuine feelings about voting for Trump. Conformity pressure was much stronger in US than in UK for Brexit.

  • Assange: Wikileaks publishes true information. We don't just publish an angle.

  • Assange: There's a lot of people not well informed about computer technology asking about Wikileaks. PGP keys don't prove anything. Concern amongst people is because of my lack of visibility. Its an understandable concern. PGP keys only say the one who controls the keys, controls the keys.

  • Assange: NYT and Guardian banned from working with Wikileaks for redacting or not publishing all documents in order to benefit them. We initially delegated redaction decisions to papers. If you open the window for people to make censorship decisions, they will exploit that for other reasons. I became hardline on enforcing our contracts. I should have cut off censoring news outlets earlier on.

  • Assange: Lebanon is a wonderful place. I have a lot of respect for the creativity and perseverance of the Lebanese people.

The session has ended.


https://www.facebook.com/maychidiacfoundation/

MCF-Media Institute Twitter: Only FCM is allowed to go live on Facebook with Assange, anyone else will be apprehended #FCM16

We just did a facebook live test! Tune in soon for a live conversation with #Assange

Julian Assange will go live on Facebook! Stay tuned!!! #FCM16


Periscope stream just ended. Moderator told the streamer she had to turn it off because they were the only ones allowed to stream it...

Streamer Twitter


Tweets from the moderator:

Live video? @siphr not sure if it's video or call but it's live

Ask if alive? @TrueEgAl he will address that today in our conversation - he still gives talks in several countries using different tech.

Ask about PGP? @drew_sparks @siphr will ask about PGP signatures

Any live viewing options? @UseGabInstead it will be live - but I don't know if they'll be able to stream this

How did you contact him? @masteranza The May Chidiac Foundation put this together as part of their Free Connected Minds Panel on Journalism

Spoke with #JulianAssange last night - he will answer all these questions about #proofoflife in our talk in an hour. He told me he was well

We just got confirmation that it's a go for Facebook live for #Assange talk - on the @MCFMI - to those who want to watch please check there


Event schedule

12:00 – 12:45 Live MCF Interview

Interview with Mr. Julian Assange, Founder of WikiLeaks (Australia)

20 minutes keynote speech and 25 minutes Q&A.

Moderator:

Ms. Youmna Naufal, Head of the English News at Future Television (Lebanon)

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MCFMI MCF-Media Institute tweeted @ 26 Nov 2016 - 10:00 UTC

Only FCM is allowed to go live on Facebook with Assange, anyone else will be apprehended #FCM16

Disclaimer: I am just a bot trying to be helpful.

Is that just legal-ese on the Facebook/streaming side, or do you feel there's something legitimately "off," here, to be concerned about?

Thanks for posting this.

Thanks for saying. I stole the content from the Reddit post, but I promise that all money from upvotes will go to Wikileaks in Bitcoin.

its more likely than not - that the wikileaks bitcoin addresses (and twitter account) have been compromised by rubberhose cryptography .

I'll believe it when I see him! It sounds SO fake! Really creepy they'd go to the trouble of faking his interview.

And why did they not ask him about Pizzagate?