Generation being born now is the last to be free – Assange before blackout (VIDEO)

Arrest warrant issued for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange
November 17, 2018 by Jerry McCormick
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An attorney inadvertently slipped up during recent proceedings and confirmed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s fears.

It turns out, there actually IS an arrest warrant for Assange in the United States.

Oops!
In a filing in an unrelated case, an inadvertent slip from the Assistant U.S. Attorney revealed the existence of a sealed warrant for Assange’s arrest.

Kellen S. Dwyer, the Assistant U.S. Attorney trying the case, was encouraging a judge to keep the records sealed.

Dwyer wrote, “Due to the sophistication of the defendant and the publicity surrounding the case, no other procedure is likely to keep confidential the fact that Assange has been charged.”

Dwyer wrote later in the filing that the charges “need to remain sealed until Assange is arrested.”

Even though the information was inadvertently leaked out, the actual reason Assange’s name is on an arrest warrant was not revealed.

Justified Paranoia
For years, people have said Assange was just being dramatic or paranoid when he said he would be arrested if he went to the U.S.

However, as it turns out, he was exactly right.

If he does happen to set foot on U.S. soil, he would wind up in cuffs.

Not only that, and as Assange has stated, if he walks out of the embassy in Ecuador where he is holed up, he would more than likely find himself in cuffs and eventually shipped off to the United States.

For What?
Once word of the warrant got out, pundits immediately started to speculate what the charges could be for.

Many have blamed Assange for contributing to Hillary Clinton’s defeat by releasing embarrassing emails from the Democratic Party in 2016.

It could also have something to do with WikiLeaks’ release of sensitive information about the U.S. military in 2010. The documents had been leaked to WikiLeaks by Chelsea Manning, who eventually went to prison for leaking classified documents.

With everything Assange is facing, it seems very unlikely he will leave that embassy anytime soon — that is unless Ecuador gets tired of him and boots him out.

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The local government has actually hinted as much recently, as Assange has recently been described as “a stone in their shoe.”

Even so, we don’t anticipate them simply putting him out there without a way to avoid authorities and preserve his freedom.

Generation being born now is the last to be free – Assange in last interview before blackout (VIDEO)
Published time: 20 Sep, 2018 18:16
Edited time: 20 Sep, 2018 18:39
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Generation being born now is the last to be free – Assange in last interview before blackout (VIDEO)
Before his links to the world was cut by his Ecuadorian hosts, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gave an interview on how technological advances are changing humankind. He said global surveillance will soon be totally unavoidable.
The interview was provided to RT by organizers of the World Ethical Data Forum in Barcelona. Assange, who is currently stranded in the Ecuadorean embassy in London with no outside communication except with his legal team, has a pretty grim outlook on where humanity is going. He says it will soon be impossible for any human being to not be included into global databases collected by governments and state-like entities.

This generation being born now… is the last free generation. You are born and either immediately or within say a year you are known globally. Your identity in one form or another –coming as a result of your idiotic parents plastering your name and photos all over Facebook or as a result of insurance applications or passport applications– is known to all major world powers.


“A small child now in some sense has to negotiate its relationship with all the major world powers… It puts us in a very different position. Very few technically capable people are able to live apart, to choose to live apart, to choose to go their own way,” he added. “It smells a bit like totalitarianism – in some way.”

The capacity to collect and process information about people has been growing exponentially and will continue to grow fast, he stated. With advancements in applying Artificial Intelligence (AI) to big data, the next logical step is coming.

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“Look at what Google and Baidu and Tencent and Amazon and Facebook are doing. They are basically open-cut harvesting the knowledge of humankind as we express it, when we communicate with each other… This classical model, which people in academia call ‘surveillance capitalism’… has changed now.

It’s a really very important and severe economic change. Which is to take the surveillance capitalism model and transform it instead into a model that does not yet have a name, an ‘AI model’. Which is to use this vast reservoir to train Artificial Intelligences of different kinds. This would replace not only intermediary sectors –most things you do on the internet is in a sense more efficient intermediation– but to take over the transport sector, or create whole new sectors.

Assange also predicted that the scale of hostile activities through cyberspace will see a breakout point as soon as AI is trained to sufficiently automate hacking attacks.

“There is no border [online]. It’s 220 milliseconds from New York to Nairobi. Why would there ever be peace in such a scenario?” he said. “[Entities online] are creating their own borders using cryptography. But the size of the attack surface for any decent-sized organization, the number of people, different types of software and hardware it has to pull inside itself means that it is very hard to establish.

I don’t think it’s really possible to come up with borders that are predictable enough and stable enough to eliminate conflict. Therefore, there will be more conflict.