Here we have a case, the Swedish case, where I have never been charged with a crime, where I have already been cleared [by the Stockholm prosecutor] and found to be innocent, where the woman herself said that the police made it up, where the United Nations formally said the whole thing is illegal, where the State of Ecuador also investigated and found that I should be given asylum. Those are the facts, but what is the rhetoric?
Julian AssangeIf you want a vision of the future, imagine Washington-back ed Google Glasses strapped onto vacant human faces - forever.
Julian AssangeThe greater the power, the more need there is for transparency, because if the power is abused, the result can be so enormous. On the other hand, those people who do not have power, we mustn't reduce their power even more by making them yet more transparent.
Julian AssangeFacebook in particular is the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented.
Julian AssangeEvery time we witness an act that we feel to be unjust and do not act, we become a party to injustice.
Julian AssangeBitcoin actually has the balance and incentives right, and that is why it is starting to take off.
Julian AssangeMy answer is that [Donald] Trump would not be permitted to win. Why do I say that? Because he's had every establishment off side; Trump doesn't have one establishment, maybe with the exception of the Evangelicals, if you can call them an establishment, but banks, intelligence [agencies], arms companies... big foreign money ... are all united behind Hillary Clinton, and the media as well, media owners and even journalists themselves.
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