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Who's preaching world democracy, democracy, democracy? —Who wants to make free people free?
You don't have to be Nostradamus to predict the future.
You go to cities like Malmö, Sweden's third city.
They are 20 years ahead demographically.
That's what the rest of Sweden is going to be, and Sweden is taking more immigrants -- more refugees -- than UK, France and all the other Nordic country combined.
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And at the same time, Sweden has in the OECD the largest gap in employment between natives and immigrants.
It is literally the worst country in the world in terms of getting immigrants integrated into the labour market.
The central problem of Sweden is that these facts are not openly discussed.
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The right -- the political right, the left, and the media, they have formed an iron cartel to basically censor negative facts of immigration and to, sort of, highlight positive spin on this issue.
And, you know, for a Swedish academic or a politician or a reporter go on TV and say the figures I have reported, that could destroy their career and, at any case, that would cause a huge amount of social reprisal.
1:19
Interviewer
Before you continue, why, if they're facts?
Tino Sanandaji
This has deep historical reasons.
And the historical issue I would argue is that when immigration -- refugee immigration -- for Sweden started in the late 1980s in large numbers, there was huge race -- violent -- aggressive racist backlash.
So, you know, this is another paradox about Scandinavia.
The Scandinavian countries are quite peaceful, but in terms of racist murders, they top the world.
And the Swedish elite -- again, the left, the right, and the media -- they formed a counter-movement to quell racism.
And if the politicians and the media can claim that immigration is good for the economy, that it's not causing unemployment, it's not causing social problems, then they easily win the debate, right?
So then they cheat.
2:15
Then they just create this, basically, public lie that things are going great, we have minor problems, but it is basically beneficial.
So the sort of spin has become a reality to them.
And given that they believe that, when they hear someone say these negative pessimistic numbers, they assume it can't be true because it that were true, why isn't everybody saying it on TV.
You know, the social truth wins over the factual truth.
7:07
But I would understand this if there was a plan.
So, OK, let's lie for a -- or white lies for a while -- until we solve this problem.
The thing is though, the problem isn't solving itself.
It's just slowly becoming bigger and bigger.
And I have to say that the level of speech oppression that they have achieved to completely [censor?] without any real laws -- at least it's not Iran, they don't put you in prison if you say these numbers.
[ Economic & Social Consequences of Addressing Facts]
What they do is, you may get fired or half your friends are going to remove you on Facebook.
It works.
So academics -- you know, these facts are well known by economists, for example.
But economists are generally silent.
What benefit is it for you if you're a blonde, blue-eyed Swede to go and say, yeah, immigration is really bad for the economy.
Then you're saying the same thing as those skinheads, right?
So then maybe you're one of them? Maybe you're racist? Why else would you be saying that?
I mean, even in New York Time, had an article where it was shocked about the so-called 'consensus' in Sweden; how there was a sort of wet blanket over the debate.
3:56
Interviewer
It's like an irrational immigration cult.
Tino Sanandaji
Yes, I would say it is sort of an anti-racist cult. That's what it is, so you know--
If you want to sort of 'psychologise', Sweden is one of the most secular countries in the world, OK?
They've lost their moral grounding -- and they're elitist, in particular -- are aggressively anti-religion, right.
But people, of course, need some sort of spirituality, morality, some values.
And, instead, their values are 'anti-racism,' so they created this alternative reality for themselves where it's the 1930s and they're the guys fighting Hitler.
And, you know, if somebody says 'immigrants have high unemployment' -- some of them genuinely think, yeah, that's what Hitler said.
They don't know what Hitler said. They don't understand that.
And, if you want, you can perhaps find an explanation in the lack of values and people fill it up, then, with something else.
5:01
Interviewer
It's a religious substitute.
Tino Sanandaji
Yes. That's what it is.
It's a quasi-religion, yes.
It's a secular religion.
5:09
Interviewer
So what is the future of all this?
Tino Sanandaji
In the short-term, they're just going to continue.
And we have the projections, that the record levels that we have now are going to accelerate even further.
In the long-run, my guess is that this is going to collapse.
Interviewer
When you say 'collapse,' what comes to your mind? Economic collapse--
Tino Sanandaji
[interjects]
-- in Sweden?
Interviewer
[cross-talk]
--social unrest? Yeah.
Tino Sanandaji
Adam Smith said that there's a lot of ruin in a nation.
By that he meant that nations can take a lot of beating without collapsing.
Sweden will never collapse, OK.
What's going to happen if this continues is just a gradual deterioration in social-economic outcomes, mostly [??].
5:53
Interviewer
So what is the mentality? Is it NIMBY -- 'not in my backyard' -- that as leaders of Sweden we're going to bring all these immigrants in because it makes us feel better, but they won't be going to our kids' schools?
Tino Sanandaji
Yes.
So among Swedish politicians there was -- one of the Swedish newspapers had a survey -- one percent (1%) of them live in the areas where there is a lot of immigrants, and those [ie resident 1%] are typically immigrants.
I mean, that just tells you -- you know, that just tells you something about those people, right, the elite -- which is this is multiculturalism for voters, but not for me and my kids.
If you really think multiculturalism is good, why don't you go and live there?
The fact that you don't live there, that almost none of them live there, almost none of them send their kids to school there, shows that at the human level, at some level, they understand that it is not working.
And these politicians -- some of them -- know.
I mean, I talk to high-ranking politicians sometimes.
Some of them know what's going on, that this is unsustainable, and that basically, Sweden is slowly going towards a cliff.
Sweden's third largest city, Malmö, sits just across the water from Copenhagen, Denmark.
To visitors, Malmö seems quiet, nice, maybe a little boring. In other words, quintessentially Swedish.
But under the surface, Malmö has serious problems.
On Saturday when Israel played Sweden in a Davis Cup tennis match in Malmö, an estimated 6,000 (six thousand) leftists, Arabs, Muslims and anarchists protested the Israeli presence in the city, and many attacked police.
Almost no fans were allowed inside to watch the tennis series because authorities feared disruptions or violence.
Massive immigration has made Malmö today one-quarter Muslim and stands to transform it into a Muslim majority city within a few decades.
One of the most popular baby names is not Sven, but Mohammed.
Pork has been taken off some school menus.
Want to learn to drive? Here's Malmö's own Jihad Driving School.
And despite Malmö's usually placid appearance, this experiment in multiculturalism has not gone well.
This is the Rosengård area of Malmö: a housing project where the radicalisation and crime have exploded, and fire and emergency workers will no longer enter without police protection.
[Rosengård built between 1967 and 1972 as a part of Million Program. White flight since 1974. Inhabitants of immigrant background -- 86% (2012) - hereMillion Program -- public housing programme implemented by Swedish Social Democratic Party 1965-1974 -- appears to be high-density public housing -- here]
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Immigrant unemployment in Rosengård is reported to be 70% (seventy percent).
An immigrant-fuelled crime wave affects 1 (one) of every 3 (three) Malmö families each year.
The number of rapes has tripped in 20 (twenty) years.
And the crime wave has only accelerated a Swedish version of white flight from the city.
Malmö has been so accommodating toward immigrant Muslims that a local Muslim politician and Imam has even declared that the best Islamic state is Sweden.
But don't ask Malmö's Jews to give the city the same glowing assessment.
Jews who dare walk the streets wearing their yamulkas risk being beaten up.
1:55
Lars Hedegaard International Free Press Society
And it's true, Jews cannot walk in the streets of Malmö and show that they're Jews.
Narrator
Lars Hedegaard lives across the water from Malmö in Copenhagen, where he was a columnist for one of Denmark's largest newspapers.
He says peaceful pro-Israeli demonstrations in Malmö, like the ones during the Gaza war earlier this year [2009], were met with rocks, bottles and pipe-bombs from Arabs and leftists.
2:22
Lars Hedegaard International Free Press Society
I was there for a demonstration -- a pro-Israeli demonstration with four (4) or five (5) hundred people; Jews [and] non-Jews -- and I came over to cover it.
The police allowed these, say, one hundred (100) Palestinians or Arabs, to shout and threaten, and throw bombs and rockets at us.
A home-made bomb landed about ten (10) yards from me, went off with a big bang, and I thought: well, now the police, of course, was going to jump these guys to get them out of the way
They didn't.
They just let them stand there.
2:57
Ted Erkeroth Swedish Democrats Interl Adviser
I filmed the Police Chief and asked him why are they not reacting to this, why they're not doing anything.
And he simply answered: it's their right according to the Swedish Constitution to be there.
We apparently did not have the same right because we were first [???]
Narrator
Swede, Ted Erkeroth, helped film the Arab-left counter demonstrations.
He saw Arabs throwing rocks at a 90 year old holocaust survivor.
Hopefully, you can show some of the clips from our manifestation for Israel, which is always peaceful and always with a message of peace, and theirs, always the quite opposite: death, hate, and killing of Jews.
Narrator
And like all over the Western world, Arab and Muslim immigrants, along with some leftists and anarchists, have formed a political alliance against Israel and Jews.
They demonstrate together, and in Sweden they vote together.
Muslims and Arabs are a core constituency of the left.
The immigrant issue is a big reason the right-wing Swedish Democrats are the fastest growing political party in the country.
Matthias Karlsson is the Swedish Democrats press secretary.
Matthias Karlsson Swedish Democrats
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In may parts of Sweden people are, as I said, fed up and they're getting pushed too far and they want to make a stand.
Narrator
But the Swedish Democrats who stand for traditional Christian values and limits on immigration have been stigmatised by the Swedish media as fascists and bigoted.
Erik Almqvist
Swedish Democrats
The media has tried to portray us as extremists, racists -- we're almost inhuman.
Narrator
Erik Almqvist, national youth leader for the Swedish Democrats, faces regular death threats and was almost killed recently in a left-wing knife attack.
Erik Almqvist Swedish Democrats
The multicultural system in Sweden has polarised the society.
We have an ethnic polarisation. We have, also, a political polarisation.
Narrator
Hedegaard says, as Malmö goes, so goes Sweden.
Lars Hedegaard International Free Press Society
I think the best prediction is that Sweden will have a Muslim majority by 2049.
So we know where that country's going.
Narrator
CBN news was unable to get a response from Malmö's mayor Ilmar Reepalu, but he told a Swedish publication he does not think anti-Semitism is greater in Malmö than in other Swedish cities and said that harassment of Jews is 'not good'.
[Other: March 2012 -- Ilmar Reepalu claimed the Jewish community in Malmö was infiltrated by the Sweden Democrats. His statement was characterized as anti-Semitic by, among other things, Lena Posner Körösi, leader of the Jewish Central Council, and Hannah Rosenthal, White House special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism. Wikipedia / Swedish to English translated]
CBN News asked a number of Jewish leaders to appear on camera to discuss anti-Semitism, they all declined, with one saying it would only make the situation worse.
Sweden could be paying a tough price on its policies on immigrants and multiculturalism.
A Stockholm suburb erupted into violence for a few hours, as crowds of angry massed youths from migrant families burned cars, smashed windows, and hurled stones at police officers.
What's believed to have fuelled the riot was the death of a sixty-nine year old, allegedly shot by police in the area last week.
So to discuss how the mood might be changing in the heart of Scandinavia, we're now joined live from the Swedish capital by Marc Abramsson, who's Chairman of the National Democrats party.
Mr Abramsson, thanks so much for joining us here on RT to discuss this.
Well, we normally have, you know, the image in our minds the image of Stockholm as a very calm, placid city.
So how surprised were you to see those riots? I mean, angry youths setting cars and buildings ablaze?
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Marc Abramsson National Democratic Party
Thank you.
Well, I was not that surprised anymore.
But this is fairly new to Sweden and this is a clear consequence of this multiculturalism politics that Sweden adopted around the 80s, and increased it in the 90s, and we are now seeing these problems; that this politics is not working.
And we have seen this -- this is not a unique one single occasion, we have seen this in Gothenburg, in Malmo, several times, and even in the city where I am an elected councillor in Södertälje, in Rona [municipality in Stockholm County, east central Sweden], we have these ethnic-based riots against Swedish authorities.
So this -- I wasn't surprised, but we have seen this in Western Europe.
It's very sad, and I think we'll see more of this if we don't change the politics in the future.
5:43
Reporter
Well, let's take a look at this particular neighbourhood, and it's 80% (eighty percent), immigrant residents.
And the trouble flared after police killed an elderly man there.
I mean, obviously, these people feel they're not protected by the police. Don't they have a right to be heard?
Marc Abramsson National Democratic Party
Well, I think that the problem beneath this -- it can be different things -- this time it was this man that was arrested and resisted and was killed.
We have other things that happened in other places.
But the main reason is that they don't identify themselves with the Swedish society or as Swedes, but their own ethnic group, they live in their own area, and they feel the area is their own, and when the police arrive, they feel that the police are intruding into their, sort of, country, if you would like.
Reporter
So how did that happen? I mean, what led to that?
Sorry for interrupting you.
But what led to that, I mean, how did they -- sort of their neighbourhood or the community where they live turn into a sort of ghetto type dwelling there.
I mean, what about the integration policies, is the government doing anything at all to integrate the immigrants?
Marc Abramsson National Democratic Party
Yes, I think that Sweden has been trying harder than any other country in Europe to try to push for integration, where we invested virtually billions into it of taxpayers' money.
We've tried everything that the scientists have presented and, still, it's not working.
And the problem -- the core here -- is that these people don't identify themselves as-- they identify themselves as their own ethnic group, and accede to the interests of their group.
And with the second generation, it's even worse, because they are between the Swedish society and their parents' society, if you would like to.
And it's clearly not working.
It's not working in Sweden, it's in France, or in the United States.
This is something we'll see more of, and I don't think it's solvable to integrate this huge influx.
If it was just a couple of people, of course.
But what we have in Sweden today is an immigration stream that is so huge that we have no roof, where there's nothing that says we'll accept this many, or we can accept ten thousand (10,000) or a thousand (1,000), but it is unlimited.
And that is basically -- I think this is really why this is escalating, because they want to live with their own people, their own ethnic group.
They seek actively to live with their own group.
So they concentrate themselves to these areas, and then they feel like their have their own little town in Sweden and they don't accept or identify with the Swedish authorities and this is just getting--
We have seen this for several years coming up with police cars: when they do work in these areas they have to be two cars, one protecting the other, when they're working in these areas.
People are trying to maintain builds, have to have guards -- security guards.
The fire department can't work.
We've seen this in Malmo when they get attacked by angry immigrant youths that feel like they're intruding into their own area, even when they're trying to help.
And this is basically-- it's not about bad or good people. It's just a consequence of this politics.
And what we would like to see, instead, is safe havens. That we help people their own countries or in neighbouring countries--
5:28 Reporter
[interrupting]
I understand, Marc, unfortunately we're running out of time.
We have to leave it there, but thanks for talking to us here at RT and letting us know what you think on this issue.'
That was Marc Abramsson, the Chairman of the National Democrats party [Sweden].
60 Minutes confirms they raised "a number of questions and concerns" that the US Govt planted with them. Ooop ... there goes the credibility of mainstream 'journalism' and mainstream media.
Talks To Steve Kroft About The U.S. Attempt To Indict Him And The Criticism Aimed At Him For Publishing
Just a few months ago, most people had never heard of a Web site called WikiLeaks, or of its mysterious and eccentric founder, Julian Assange. But in that short period of time both have managed to rattle the worlds of journalism, diplomacy, and national security. WikiLeaks, which solicits and publishes secrets and suppressed material from whistleblowers around the world, has been under cyber attack from governments that want to shut it down. And Assange is currently under legal attack from the U.S. government which would like to charge him with espionage for publishing volumes of classified material from the Pentagon and the State Department.
"60 Minutes" and correspondent Steve Kroft spent two days with him in Great Britain where he is under house arrest, while fighting extradition to Sweden for questioning in two sexual assault cases, which he's called part of a smear campaign against him. In his most extensive television interview to date, Assange talked to us about his work, his vision and the prospects of facing criminal charges in the United States.
Steve Kroft: You've been called a lot of names. You've been characterized as a hero and as a villain. A martyr. Terrorist.
Julian Assange: I'm not yet a martyr.
Kroft: Right.
Assange: Let's keep it that way.
For now, Assange is holed up on [this] bucolic 600-acre English estate with an ankle bracelet, a 10 p.m. curfew, and a slow Internet connection. He declined to talk to us about the allegations in Sweden, on the advice of his attorney. He has not been charged and proclaims his innocence.
Kroft: Well, I suppose if you have to be under house arrest, there could be worse places.
Assange: Well it's a gilded cage. It's still a cage. But when you are forced to stay somewhere against your will, it does become something that you want to leave.
Kroft:
It's a radical departure from the lifestyle that the peripatetic Internet muckraker is used to - bounding from city to city, country to country, and regularly changing his cell phones, hair styles and general appearance, he says, to elude surveillance and avoid being killed, kidnapped or arrested.
And there are reasons for his paranoia: in the last four years, WikiLeaks has released information that played some role in deciding the 2007 election in Kenya, and fueling the anger that recently brought down the government in Tunisia. It has also divulged the membership rolls of a neo Nazi organization in Great Britain, and secret documents from the Church of Scientology. And that was before Assange began publishing U.S. secrets, provoking what he calls threatening statements from people close to power.
Kroft: What statements are you referring to?
Assange: The statements by the Vice President Biden saying, for instance that I was a high-tech terrorist. Sarah Palin calling to our organization to be dealt with like the Taliban, and be hunted down. There's calls either for my assassination or the assassination of my staff or for us to be kidnapped and renditioned back to the United States to be executed.
Kroft: Well as you know, we have a First Amendment and people can say whatever they want, including politicians. I don't think that many people in the United States took seriously the idea that you were a terrorist.
Assange: I would like to believe that. On the other hand the incitements to murder are a serious issue. And unfortunately there is a portion of the population that will believe in them and may carry them out.
Kroft:
If nothing else, WikiLeaks is the latest demonstration that a small group of people with a powerful idea can harness technology and affect large institutions. In WikiLeaks' case it was the idea to aggregate state and corporate secrets by setting up an online electronic drop box where whistleblowers around the world could anonymously upload sensitive and suppressed information. The secrets are stored on servers around the world, beyond the reach of governments or law enforcement, then released worldwide on the Internet.
Assange: The U.S. does not have the technology to take the site down
Kroft: Because?
Assange: Just the way our technology is constructed, the way the Internet is constructed. It's quite hard to stop things reappearing. So, we've had attacks on particular domain names. Little pieces of infrastructure knocked out. But we now have some 2,000 fully independent in every way Web sites, where we're publishing around the world.
Kroft:
WikiLeaks first caught the attention of most Americans last April when it released a video which shows a U.S. Apache helicopter crew in Iraq opening fire on a group of suspected insurgents who were standing on a street corner in Baghdad.
Some of the men were armed, but two of them were journalists from Reuters.
At least a dozen people were killed in the attack, some of them innocent civilians. Then last July, WikiLeaks released 76,000 classified field reports of U.S. operations in Afghanistan that provided a chaotic and bleak ground level view of the war. In October there were another 400,000 classified documents released from Iraq showing that civilian casualties there were much higher than the Pentagon had claimed; and finally in November, thousands of State Department cables that lifted the veil on highly sensitive back room diplomacy.
The documents revealed that Arab leaders were lobbying the U.S. to attack Iran, and that the State Department had been secretly collecting intelligence on leaders at the United Nations. It triggered outcries that Assange was a political actor trying to damage the U.S. government.
[Plant]
Kroft: Are you a subversive?
Assange: I'm sure there are certain views amongst Hillary Clinton and her lot that we are subverting their authority. But you're right, we are subverting illegitimate authority. The question is whether the authority is legitimate or whether it is illegitimate.
Kroft: Do you consider the U.S. State Department a legitimate authority?
Assange: It's legitimate insofar as its actions are legitimate. It has actions that are not legitimate.
[Plant?]
Kroft: And you've gone after the ones that you think are illegitimate?
Assange: We don't go after. That's a bit of a misconception. We don't go after a particular country. We don't go after a particular organizational group. We just stick to our promise of publishing the material that is likely to have a significant impact.
Kroft:
To increase the impact of the U.S. documents, Assange decided to share them with some of the leading news organizations in the world, including The New York Times - a relationship that grew testy when Assange published the first set of war logs without removing the names of Afghans who were cooperating with U.S. forces.
Kroft: The most persistent criticism from within the press has been that you have behaved recklessly from time to time. And the example that they cite is the fact that you've decided to release Afghan documents without redacting the names of people who had provided intelligence to the U.S. government.
Assange: There's no evidence, or any credible allegation, or even any allegation from an official body that we have caused any individual at any time to come to harm in the past four years.
Kroft: The Pentagon said that they've gone through all of these documents and they found the names of 300 people.
Assange: Well, that's new public information to us. It's possible that there are 300 names in the publically released Afghan material. We don't pretend that that process is absolutely perfect. We did hold back one in five documents for extra harm minimization review and we also improved our process. So, when Iraq came around there was not even a single name in it.
Kroft: I mean, there have been reports of people quoting Taliban leaders, saying that they had the names of these people and that they were going to take retribution.
Assange: The Taliban is not a coherent outfit. But we don't say that it is absolutely impossible that anything we ever publish will ever result in harm. We cannot say that.
[Plant?]
Kroft: There's a perception on the part of some people who believe that your agenda right now is anti-American.
Assange: Not at all. In fact, our founding values are those of the U.S. revolution. They are those of the people like Jefferson and Madison. And we have a number of Americans in our organization. If you're a whistleblower and you have material that is important, we will accept it, we will defend you and we will publish it. You can't turn away material simply because it comes from the United States.
Kroft:
After the release of the State Department cables, Attorney General Eric Holder condemned WikiLeaks for putting national security at risk. "There's a real basis. There is a predicate for us to believe that crimes have been committed here," Holder said at a press conference.
Holder announced that the Justice Department and the Pentagon were conducting a criminal investigation. They are reportedly looking at the Espionage Act of 1917 and other statutes to find a way to prosecute Assange and extradite him to the U.S.
Assange: It's completely outrageous.
Kroft: Are you surprised?
Assange: I am surprised, actually.
[LMAO ... 'forces of nature'?]
Kroft: But you were screwing with the forces of nature. You have made some of the most powerful people in the world your enemies. You had to expect that they might retaliate.
Assange: Oh, no. I fully expected they'll retaliate.
Kroft: You took, you gathered, you stored all sorts of classified cables and documents. And then released them to the world on the Internet. They see that as a threat.
Assange: They see it as highly embarrassing. I think what it's really about is keeping the illusion of control. I'm not surprised about that. I am surprised at how the sort of flagrant disregard for U.S. traditions. That is what I'm surprised about.
[Oh, the hypocrisy ... wonder which Aussie gangster said that? lol]
[Plant?]
Kroft: You're shocked? Someone in the Australian government said that, "Look, if you play outside the rules you can't expect to be protected by the rules." And you played outside the rules. You've played outside the United States' rules.
Assange: No. We've actually played inside the rules. We didn't go out to get the material. We operated just like any U.S. publisher operates. We didn't play outside the rules. We played inside the rules.
[Plant?]
Kroft: There's a special set of rules in the United States for disclosing classified information. There is longstanding…
Assange: There's a special set of rules for soldiers. For members of the State Department, who are disclosing classified information. There's not a special set of rules for publishers to disclose classified information. There is the First Amendment. It covers the case. And there's been no precedent that I'm aware of in the past 50 years of prosecuting a publisher for espionage. It is just not done. Those are the rules. You do not do it.
Kroft:
No one has accused Assange of stealing secrets. The Apache video and the classified documents were allegedly provided to WikiLeaks by Private First Class Bradley Manning, a low-level intelligence analyst in Iraq who is accused of copying them from a classified government network that a half a million people have access to.
Manning is now in solitary confinement at a military prison in Virginia, facing charges that could put him away for 50 years.
Kroft: You've called him as a prisoner of a conscience, correct?
Assange: I've said that if the allegations against him are true then he is the foremost prisoner of conscience in the United States. There's no allegation it was done for money. There's no allegation it's done for any other reasons than a political reason. Now, I'm sorry if people in the United States don't want to believe that they are keeping a political prisoner. But in Bradley Manning's case, the allegations are that he engaged in an illegal activity for political motivations.
Kroft: People in the United States think he's a traitor.
Assange: That's clearly not true.
Regardless of what happens to Private Manning, any prosecution of Assange will be fraught with problems because WikiLeaks wasn't alone in the publishing the classified material. The New York Times also published some of it. If the government were to try and prosecute WikiLeaks and not The New York Times, it would likely need to prove that Assange was actively involved in a conspiracy to illegally obtain the documents.
Kroft: Did you encourage anyone to leak this material to you? Or have you done anything in connection with the U.S. cases in terms of encouraging an individual to provide you with material?
Assange: No, never.
Kroft: There are people that believe that it has everything to do with the next threat. That if they don't come after you now that what they have done is essentially endorsed small, powerful organization with access to very powerful information releasing it outside their control. And if they let you get away it, then they are encouraging…
Assange: Then what? They will have to have freedom of the press?
Kroft: That it's encouragement to you…
Assange: And? And?
Kroft: …or to some other organization?
Assange: And to every other publisher. Absolutely correct. It will be encouragement to every other publisher to publish fearlessly. That's what it will encourage.
[Plant?]
Kroft: To publish information much more dangerous than this information.
Assange: If we're talking about creating threats to small publishers to stop them publishing, the U.S. has lost its way. It has abrogated its founding traditions. It has thrown the First Amendment in the bin. Because publishers must be free to publish.
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Segment: Julian Assange, Part 2
Kroft:
Assange is not your average journalist or publisher, and some have argued that he is not really a journalist at all. He is an anti-establishment ideologue with conspiratorial views. He believes large government institutions use secrecy to suppress the truth and he distrusts the mainstream media for playing along.
Some people have called him an anarchist, which he denies. Assange prefers to be called a libertarian, and believes that the only people who can adequately police the system are those on the inside who are in a position to notice the abuse and blow the whistle. While most reporters pride themselves in gathering information and interpreting it for a larger audience, the WikiLeaks model is different - it prefers to take raw data, make it available and let others decide the meaning.
Regardless of whether you agree with this idea or not, it beats close to the heart of the Internet, and a younger generation, and it runs through the life of Assange.
Kroft: You obviously have a mistrust of authority. Where does that come from?
Assange: I think it comes from experience with various types of authorities.
Assange gave us an example from his childhood, a story about him and his mother Christine, who was present at one of his recent court hearings. She was a political activist who helped scientists gather information about nuclear tests conducted by the British in the Australian outback. He remembers them being stopped late one night and questioned by authorities, one of whom said:
Assange: Look lady, you're out at two o'clock in the morning with this child…it could be suggested that you're an unfit mother. I suggest you stay out of politics. And which she did for the next ten years in order to make sure nothing happened to me. So that's a very early abuse of power and the secrecy that I saw in my life.
His was an unconventional and sometimes tumultuous childhood in which he was frequently uprooted and moved around the countryside. He attended 37 different schools.
Kroft: So you've always been a little bit of an outsider?
Assange: I've certainly, when I was a child, going from one school to another, you are the outsider to begin with and you have to find your way in. But in most of the places where I stayed long enough, I did find my way in.
One of the first places Assange found his way into was populated by teenagers and computers. And he knew how to program them before most people had them.
Kroft: You got involved with computers pretty early? With hacking?
Assange: Well, I first became involved with computers when I was 13 or so. And I was unusually adept and I saw a sort of intellectual opportunity understanding how to program, understanding how these complex machines work. And that was part of a social culture in cracking codes to prove that you could do it. And this is something that is very actually normal and healthy amongst young men. You see it in skateboarders competing to show that they are capable in learning the best tricks.
Kroft: And your tricks were like breaking into computers at the Department of Defense and Los Alamos National Laboratory, NASA and NORTEL, some Canadian banks.
Assange: Yeah. All that happened.
Kroft: At age 20, Assange was arrested by the Australian Federal Police and eventually pled guilty to multiple counts of computer hacking. He managed to get off with no jail time because the judge concluded Assange hadn't stolen any information or done any damage.
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Kroft: Is that still one of your skills?
Assange: Not really. Unfortunately, I've been sort of, you know, promoted up into management, so I don't get to do that so much. But I know the terrain which means I know what is possible. I mean, Bill Gates could program but he certainly doesn't program anymore. But he knows what is possible for other people to do.
Kroft: Except that Assange is not Bill Gates and WikiLeaks is not Microsoft. The shoestring operation that created all the havoc has no permanent offices and is headquartered wherever Assange happens to be. WikiLeaks is a small non-profit organization with a handful of anonymous employees, a secret cadre of international programmers, and a legion of worldwide volunteers.
Its finances are administered by the Wau Holland Foundation based in Berlin and named after a famous hacker. According to the ledgers, WikiLeaks took in $1.3 million last year in donations, with expenses of about $500,000.
Kroft: For somebody who abhors secrets, you run a pretty secret organization.
Assange: That's not true. What we want is transparent government, not transparent people. We are an organization who one of our primary goals is to keep certain things secret to keep the identity of our sources secret so secrecy is an inherent part of our operation.
Kroft: The State Department would make the same argument. They have…doing very sensitive work that they're trying to make peace and negotiate situations around the world. Very delicately. It's very important that they do this in secrecy. What's the difference?
Assange: We don't say that the State Department should have no secrets. That's not what we're saying. Rather, we say that if there are people in the State Department who say that there is some abuse going on, and there's not a proper mechanism for internal accountability and external accountability, they must have a conduit to get that out to the public. And we are the conduit.
Kroft: Given all the attention that Assange has received, we were curious about how he thought he was being perceived in the United States. He told us that he hasn't had the time to give it much thought.
Kroft: Do you want me to give you my characterization of what I think people think?
Assange: Sure.
Kroft: Mysterious. Little weird. A cult-like figure. Little paranoid.
Assange: Well, you're repeating all the ad hominem attacks by our critics. My role when I do something like speak about that we have discovered the deaths of 109,000 individual people in Iraq, 15,000 civilian casualties never before reported anywhere, that's a very serious role. That is not a role where I can engage in humor. So I'm not used to performing under the spotlight. And I am learning this as time's going by.
Kroft: You have shown a fair amount of contempt for the mainstream press over the years. Why did you decide to as you used, the word "partner" with them, in some of these most recent releases?
Assange: We're a small organization. We're in a position, say, with Cablegate, where we have 3,000 volumes of material that are very important to get out to the public in a responsible manner that have the potential for great change - for example, this recent revolution in Tunisia. It is logistically impossible, so instead our organization delegates its excess source material to other journalists, who will have more impact. Who will do a better job.
[Plant?]
Kroft: There is an element of the press, most of the mainstream press, nobody wants to see you prosecuted, because it could affect the way that they do their business. But there's also a feeling within the community that you're not one of them, that you play a different game.
Assange: We do play a different game. And I hope we're a new way.
[Plant?]
Kroft: The point that they're making I think is that you're not -- you're -- you're a publisher, but you're also an activist.
Assange: Wait, whoa. We're a particular type of activist. In the U.S. context, there seems to be communist activists or something, so it's a…
Kroft: Right. Agitator.
Assange: It's a dirty word in the U.S.
Kroft: It's a dirty word. And people think that what you're trying to do is to sabotage the workings of government.
[Plant?]
Assange: No. We're not that type of activists. We are free press activists. It's not about saving the whales. It's about giving people the information they need to support whaling or not support whaling. Why? That is the raw ingredients that is needed to make a just and civil society. And without that you're just sailing in the dark.
Kroft: There have been clear signs that Assange - under the threat of possible indictment by the Justice Department - has moderated some of his views. Before releasing the last two batches of classified documents, Assange and his lawyers contacted both the Pentagon and the State Department offering to explore ways to minimize potential harm. In both cases their offer was rebuffed. Assange acknowledged that his fundraising has been hurt by the decision of PayPal, MasterCard, Visa and Bank of America to cease handling donations. But he dismissed reports that WikiLeaks is wracked by internal dissention and mass defections.
Assange: We're talking about Daniel Domscheit-Berg, who was a German spokesman, had a limited role in the organization. We had to suspend him some five months ago.
Kroft: Describes you as being authoritarian, secretive, punitive.
Assange: I'm the boss that suspended him, that's correct.
Kroft: You don't care to elaborate?
Assange: I think I just did.
Kroft: You said you have this package of very damaging documents, sort of a poison pill, that's going to be released if anything bad happens to you.
Assange: No, that's not at all true. That's some kind of media hype. What we do have is a system whereby we distribute encrypted backups of things we have yet to publish. There are backups distributed amongst many, many people, 100,000 people and that all we need to do is give them an encrypted key and they will be able to continue on.
[Plant?]
Kroft: This wasn't intended to be a blackmail threat.
Assange: Not at all.
Kroft: What would trigger that encryption code being released?
Assange: Anything that prevented us from our ability to publish. So not just for a second, but preventing us significantly from being able to publish.
Kroft: Your imprisonment, for example.
Assange: If a number of people were imprisoned or assassinated, then we would feel that we could not go on and other people would have to take over our work, and we would release those keys.
Kroft: One bank, Bank of America, had its stock go down three to five percent based on a rumor, maybe it's a rumor, maybe you know more about it, that you had the contents of a five gigabyte hard drive belonging to one of its executives. Do you have a five gigabyte hard drive?
Assange: I won't make any comment in relation to that upcoming publication.
Kroft: You're certainly not denying it.
Assange: You know, there'll be a process of elimination if we denied some and admitted others.
Kroft: So it might not be Bank of America and you're just gonna let them squirm until you get ready to…
Assange: I think it's great. We have all these banks squirming, thinking maybe it's them.
Kroft: You seem to enjoy stirring things up.
Assange: When you see abusive organizations suffer the consequences as a result of their abuse, and you see victims elevated, it's, yes, that's a very pleasurable activity to be involved in.
[Plant?]
Kroft: I mean you see yourself as a check on the power of the United States and other big countries in the world. And in the process of doing that, you have now become powerful yourself. Who is the check on you?
Assange: It is our sources who choose to provide us with information or not, depending on how they see our actions. It is our donors who choose to give us money or not. This organization cannot survive for even a few months without the ongoing support of the public.
Kunduz Still Held by Taliban, Locals Say, Despite Afghan Government Claims
Afghan soldiers preparing on Wednesday for a counteroffensive to try to retake the city of Kunduz from the Taliban.Credit Najim Rahim/European Pressphoto Agency
KABUL, Afghanistan — Kunduz residents and provincial officials said the city remained in Taliban hands on Thursday, despite claims from the Afghan government that it had retaken the city.
Kareema Sediqi, a member of the Kunduz provincial council, said that “the city is still in Taliban control,” but that Afghan security forces had advanced as far as a roundabout near the city’s entrance. Interviews with several residents suggested that the situation was fluid, with fighting continuing.
Ms. Sediqi, who spoke from Kabul but was in contact with family members trapped in Kunduz, said, “The Afghan security forces are struggling against strong Taliban resistance from Taliban who are wearing A.N.A. uniforms,” referring to the Afghan National Army.
It is a common Taliban tactic to obtain uniforms of the government security forces and use them to confuse their enemies.
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But before residents had gone far from their homes, the Taliban counterattacked, wearing the uniforms of Afghan security forces, with some riding motorcycles and others driving captured Humvees and sports utility vehicles. They pushed back the Afghan forces, who remained on the city’s outskirts, according to Ms. Sediqi and some residents.
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Saad Mukhtar, the director of public health for Kunduz, said that since the city fell, his office had recorded 49 dead and 332 wounded in local hospitals, including civilians and members of the Afghan security forces.
Hundreds of civilians and members of the government forces have been holed up in the airport south of Kunduz, and reinforcements sent from other provinces have been delayed or halted by Taliban resistance in outlying areas.
Residents reached in parts of Kunduz Province beyond the city said that the Taliban remained in control in the district of Chardara. That district is one of the most strategically important in the province because a road to the largest city in Afghanistan’s north, Mazar-i-Sharif, runs through it.
Pentagon Pushing to Increase Post-2016 Troop Levels in Afghanistan
New Plans Aim to Give Military 'Leeway' on When to Carry Out Drawdown
by Jason Ditz, September 30, 2015
Every planned drawdown of US military forces from Afghanistan seems to turn up later than announced and smaller than planned, and despite officials still sticking to the NATO narrative that the Afghan War “ended,” some 10,000 US troops remain there. Officially, the plan is for a major drawdown by the end of next year that will finally catch up with what was supposed to be a 2014 pullout.
Unsurprisingly, the Pentagon is once again fighting against following through on the plans, with officials saying the “plans” they are advancing both intend to withhold the troop level reductions deeper into 2017, and to give the Pentagon more “leeway” in when and how many troops get removed from the country after 2017.
Already 14 years into the occupation of Afghanistan, the continuing struggles of the Afghan military continues to drag US ground troops into combat, and many officials seem to favor just maintaining the occupation essentially forever instead of ending the war and watching the government continue to lose territory to the same insurgency they’ve been fighting throughout that war.
With less and less media coverage of the Afghan War, there seems to be less political interest in seeing the troops brought home, which likely will ensure that the Pentagon proposals to keep troops there get through without too much debate.
While it's not exactly a relief that it was in Switzerland rather than in Germany, it is something of a relief to learn the violence was at least confined to violence between immigrant parties, rather than attack on the host community.
The LiveLeak footage indicated that it was a confrontation between Kurdish and Turkish parties, and that 4 police and a K9 were injured, in addition to the various other parties injured (and possibly killed).
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Watch: Migrant Kurds And Turks Battle On The Streets Of Switzerland
by Liam Deacon12 Sep 2015
Kurds and Turks went to war on the street of Europe once again today. A group of Kurdish independence supporters leaving a rally in the Swiss town of Bern were rammed by a car allegedly driven by a supporter of Turkish nationalism. Two are thought to have died, with twenty injured.
The initial rally was organised by the “Union of Turkish Democrats in Europe” against Kurdish “terrorism,” NZZ reports. Around 100 Turkish nationalists gather and were met by a counter demonstration of around 180 supporters of Kurdish independence and the prescribed group the PKK.
Local News provider Watson reports that the town center was sealed off and several bridges closed. Riot police used rubber bullets and peppers spray to separate the rival groups, who were angered by the ongoing conflict between their two ethnic groups in the Middle East.
The fatal attack was on a smaller, breakaway group on the edge of the rally, local media Blick reports. Videos loaded to social media show a black Mercedes accelerating into a group of Kurdish demonstrators, identifiable by their yellow PKK flags. Several people are struck and screaming is heard.
A spokeswoman for Canton Police confirmed to Watson that an “incident” involving a vehicle had occurred on Saturday afternoon. The driver had been detained but disruption in the town was ongoing when the spokeswoman addressed journalists at 18:00 local time.
The violence follows Thursday’s bloody clashes in Frankfurt, Germany between Kurds and Turks, which descended into a riot, and further reports of violent clashes between the two ethnic groups in Hannover today.
WATCH: Migrant Turks And Kurds Battle On Frankfurt Streets, German Army Called In
by Simon Kent 11 Sep 2015
At least five arrests were made in Frankfurt on Thursday night after a march by supporters of Turkish nationalism descended into bloody violence when they clashed with rival Kurd separatists.
Video of the riot has emerged on the same day Germany announced it will place 4,000 soldiers on standby over the weekend to help with a new wave of up to 40,000 refugees arriving in the country.
Police said The Thursday event was billed as a “solidarity march commemorating fallen Turkish soldiers”. According to FR Online to it was organised by the “Federation of Turkish young people” which campaigns on behalf of Turkey. The fracas involved a group of around 380 participant and started at the city’s main railway station at 18.30.
Soon after the Turkish supporters set off there were attacks by immigrant Kurd counter-demonstrators who used sticks, bottles and stones to attack marchers. One taxi driver reportedly had his car damaged in the brawl.
Police confirmed the counter-demonstrators were of Kurdish origin and quickly withdrew.
More than 40,000 people have died since the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) launched its armed campaign in 1984 calling for an independent Kurdish state within Turkey.
Now immigrants from both sides of that battle are carrying their fight onto the streets of Frankfurt.
Meanwhile, Germany will mobilise 4,000 soldiers in the next 48-hours to help with the entry of up to 40,000 refugees in the country, Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen said on Friday.
She told Der Spiegel that she was placing the troops on alert with the expectation they could be asked to do more than just welcome the immigrant arrivals.
“The country can be sure that the Bundeswehr [German army] will be supporting” efforts to care for refugees, Von der Leyen said, adding that the army could do yet more if called upon.
“We are spreading these 4,000 soldiers across the country and they will intervene if the federal states [which are responsible for the initial uptake of refugees] request it,” a Defence Ministry spokesman told The Local.
“They will provide a helping hand, for example to set up a refugee camp, to help with organization, provide buses and drivers, other types of transport, medical services and equipment, anything of that kind.”
Record numbers of people from the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa continue to pour into Europe, with around 7,600 entering Macedonia in the last 12 hours.
Bendigo mosque protest: Anti-mosque and anti-racism protesters clash
Date August 29, 2015
Tom Cowie, Reporter
Police deployed capsicum spray in the heart of Bendigo on Saturday afternoon as violent scuffles broke out between opposing protest groups over plans for a mosque.
About 200 people gathered in the central Victorian city for a protest organised by the United Patriots Front, where they were met with equal numbers from left-wing groups including No Room For Racism and the Socialist Alternative.
A huge police presence, including a mounted unit, locked down large areas of the regional city in anticipation of the groups coming together.
The anti-Islam demonstration was organised as part of a vocal campaign to stop a mosque from being built in Bendigo. The Victorian Civil and Administrative Council recently dismissed an appeal against the project.
Police set up a barricade around Bendigo Town Hall for the anti-mosque protest at 2pm, as the No Room For Racism group gathered outside chanting and playing music.
The groups tried to clash on several occasions, including at the Hargreaves Street Mall, but were met with large police numbers.
At one point, protesters came together when a flag was burned by the anti-racist demonstrators. Police used capsicum spray on the anti-Islam protesters who were trying to get across the police line.
Speaking out against the mosque and Islam were several leaders from the right-wing United Patriots Front, as well as Go Back To Where You Come From star Kim Vuga.
The lead objector against the mosque, Julie Hoskin, spoke in front of the crowd and said the majority of people in Bendigo opposed the mosque.
She accused the council and "complicit media" of trying to convince residents that most people in the city supported the mosque.
"We are local and we are vocal and we don't want a mosque in Bendigo," she said.
Many of the anti-Islam speakers were not from Bendigo but when they asked how many people in the crowd were from the area a large amount put their hand up.
Several protesters on both sides wore masks to hide their identity.
The anti-Islam demonstrators carried Australian flags and protest signs, including one that said "Say no to the Islamisation of Bendigo". Another said the local council was "sacrificing Bendigo to Islam for their own greed".
Controversial Bendigo Councillor Elise Chapman, who has been a vocal opponent of the mosque, was in the crowd wearing an Australian flag.
United Patriots Front leader Blair Cottrell was seen washing his eyes out with water after police deployed the capsicum spray.
In his speech, Mr Cottrell lashed his opponents from the anti-racist protests as "losers, renegades and traitors". The UPF have been engaged in ongoing street battles with left-wing groups, including outside State Parliament last month.
Life-long Bendigo resident Sue McConnachieattended the rally with friends to show support for the mosque, but was disappointed with the level of aggression from both sides.
"It seemed like the emphasis on the local cause was certainly weakened by the people on the front lines," Ms McConnachie said.
The anti-racist group at one point played Khe Sanh by Cold Chisel, a reference to Jimmy Barnes asking right-wing group Reclaim Australia not to play his songs.
The rally broke up at about 4pm. Police remained on high alert after the protest in preparation any subsequent clashes. There were no arrests.
The
wide range of problems in Switzerland, Germany, France, and a number of other Western European countries that result from cross-cultural immigration are staggering.
But non-European refugees and immigrants keep pouring in, thanks to the policies of neocon politicians who are (a) responsible for the chaos abroad that results in displacement and migration (b) responsible for failing to make alternate arrangements for those they have displaced.
Meanwhile, the domestic bleeding hearts and demented ideologues, are all for opening borders to more chaos, as well as irreconcilable cultural and other issues (at best).
I strongly sympathise with those that seek to preserve their amenities, their national heritage, and the integrity and primacy of their own cultures, be it in Europe or in the colonies.
It's impossible to see solutions. All I see is doom.
EU-NATO IMPERIALISM ❌ 
