When Google Met Wikileaks: Secret meeting between Julian Assange and Google CEO Eric Schmidt

"On the 23 of June, 2011 a secret five hour meeting took place between WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange, who was under house arrest in rural UK at the time and Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
Also in attendance was Jared Cohen, a former Secretary of State advisor to Hillary Clinton, Scott Malcomson, Director of Speechwriting for Ambassador Susan Rice at the US State Department and current Communications Director of the International Crisis Group, and Lisa Shields, Vice President of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Schmidt and Cohen requested the meeting, they said, to discuss ideas for "The New Digital World", their forthcoming book to be published on April 23, 2013.
We provide here a verbatim transcript of the majority of the meeting; a close reading, particularly of the latter half, is revealing."
Transcript: wikileaks.org/Transcript-Meet...
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Assange op-ed on the book: www.nytimes.com/2013/06/02/op...

[@doctorhankjr5126]

Schmidt is one of the highest level DOD and CIA/NSA. Interview here was to gather info on Julian. He was a diplomat son from "Virginia" and then he came to UC Berkely for computer science graduate school. Then he begain working with my friend in west Berkely dealing with the Novell architecture as it made inter-communication more and more possible. Prior to becomeing exec director of google, he went to UTAH the home of the NSA, and FEC records showed he donated the maximum money to both the republican and democratic party senators. Then he became head of google, the largest US DOD company and who would say he is evil versus the heroic Julian Assange. Free Julian now !!!

[@amycrunch3812]

He and Jared were on their way to NK? He's sure a dimbulb.

[@jillfryer6699]

@@amycrunch3812 there might be a dimmer switch dear but that bulb is not dim

[@petertrott5107]

Assange has a great mind. He can see what is really going on out there. He will be remembered as one of the great thinking minds of our day and age that we persecuted.

[@jennyann67]

Julian has such an extraordinary mind; his ideas are so innovative. I love the concept of scientific journalism - the requirement to show the source data. That's so important. The idea of censorship via complexity is very interesting as well; I like his pyramid idea of how press censorship works from the rare violence at the top to self-censorship and complexity at the bottom. And it makes sense about viewing corporations and states as similar systems. No wonder they're trying to pick his brain. Too bad they don't have an ounce of Julian's integrity.

[@carolreid5405]

jennyann67 Yes. Too bad.

[@saukrates420]

Yes, not just they do not possess an ounce of his integrity --rather more to the point, that they are present to interview him under dishonest and duplicitous intentions.

[@DuartMaclean]

Assange is not an American; he is an Australian. If the U.S. gov't tries to subject him to a life punishment or worse, death, there will be a violence on the streets of the U.S.A., and possibly other nations as well. And that would be a tragedy. Assange is deeply respected by a large percentage of American people, as well as peoples' of other nations who love and respect him as well.

[@ratbullkan]

:/

[@carolreid5405]

Duart Maclean The media has tried to convince us that he is everything he isn’t, much evidence to the contrary, and that he isn’t liked or respected. Think we are buying into this false narrative.?

[@amycrunch3812]

That'd be nice but doesn't look like that today. Trump fans have forgot Assange.

[@amycrunch3812]

@@carolreid5405 The science of disinformation: there should be university studies and courses.

[@jillfryer6699]

Because of the tamed nature of too many aussies and another embarrassment posing as a prime minister those of us who are not that way thank you with all our hearts, we need every shred of support here we can get from anyone anywhere who cares.

[@sagemantis6229]

I noticed when Eric Schmidt and the narrator of this video talk about humanity, they say "they" instead of "we" or "us".

[@amycrunch3812]

The narrator?

[@amycrunch3812]

@JRGJRG There's truth there.

[@RichardBoase]

Terrifying how Eric Schmidt opens by talking about 'Thor'... instead of TOR and apparently doesn't know what it is or what it's for... just shows you how clueless these CEO profit-oriented business types are.

[@amycrunch3812]

Good ear!

[@stephensipek7858]

I hate that he shares anything with them.

[@carolreid5405]

Stephen Sipek Yes. You have to wonder what ‘they’ did with it against ‘us’.??

[@jillfryer6699]

@@carolreid5405 You have to wonder what may have been '(edited)' out of such an interesting comment.

[@Majoofi]

This is extraordinarily enlightening. Great insights from one of the most exciting minds of our generation. Too bad sections have challenging sound.

[@amycrunch3812]

Download the MP3 from the site. Works better.

[@Majoofi]

@@amycrunch3812 Wow. I'd forgotten all about this.

[@williamd.reeves8786]

Julian is philosophically and morally right. (Grace)

[@carolreid5405]

William D. Reeves Absolutely.

[@not2tees]

For those hoping for a full 3 hours of bongo drumming, the drumming sadly ends at only the 2 hour, 11 minute mark.

[@onscreenpiano]

"When you lead through values, you don't need to trust people," says Assange. Right this way for freedom, he may as well be saying. Humanity is going nowhere until it starts to take values seriously, and live by them. It'll just end up in some evolutionary hole, suppressing and micromanaging itself into eternity.

[@jillfryer6699]

well justified finely honed instinctive trust is the gold standard. values schmalues can switch as needed.

[@williamd.reeves8786]

Thanks for the insight.(Grace)

[@Growndweller]

You're right my friend. Everything he says on this recording have been conclusions I have come to myself, although not in as such elaborate detail. I only hope the guy he's speaking to isn't a wolf in sheep's clothing.

[@christopherkettler8727]

Why did they do this in someones work shop? And i hope julian didnt reveal to much i dont think shmidt has nearly as much integrity he wants to rule the world or some shit....

[@amycrunch3812]

The kitchen at Ellingham where they eat.

[@amycrunch3812]

Schmidt is a Clinton supporter. He and Lisa Shields are very much Deep State. So are the others.

[@jillfryer6699]

Its the clatter of crockery and cutlery and staff passing. there's cleaned up versions available. I sort of like the real atmosphere of the clatter.

[@TheEthanwashere]

To those complaining about sound try listening to it with headphones- better yet noise canceling ones.

[@amycrunch3812]

What kind of laptop did she have?

[@lostforever7057]

Rural uk is now SAVAGE UK. FREE ASSANGE

[@martinhendry]

Someone is having a lot of fun with Google's new "infinite bubble-wrap" in the background.

[@Growndweller]

Really, that's what caught your attention? Did you not happen to notice the plate-fork duel going on in the foreground?

[@amycrunch3812]

This is also available at the WL website.

[@amycrunch3812]

JA: You know about Bitcoin? ES: No. World: Facepalm

[@Growndweller]

This is making me hungry.

[@jillfryer6699]

hope you been fed by now! could do with a bite myself.

[@marcbulow5402]

It is the irrtigate assumption to achieve goals only by speaking about holistic things like making love.

[@zackklein2225]

I just found out the noise is typing for the transcript........... I think........ Some sort of typing. I wonder who's kid is that in the backround.

[@amycrunch3812]

The kid is perhaps one of Vaughn's.

[@jillfryer6699]

read the book. only $20 from Wikileaks.

[@johnleehudson7307]

How & why did this have to be keep so secret for so long?♠

[@amycrunch3812]

It wasn't.

[@jillfryer6699]

from distraction upon distraction the anxious spirit flees

[@amycrunch3812]

Lunch is served! 22:00

[@tigressnsnow]

John Lee Hudson, u r very funny and I agree

[@amycrunch3812]

1:15:46 Batman strikes!

[@amycrunch3812]

Oh good grief, Schmidt and Tor...

[@remyjacobs221]

Whats up with the adhd jitter in background?

[@jillfryer6699]

One day there'll be a movie like the Matrix, parts of it feel like it, the mind games.

[@amycrunch3812]

1:10:59 Time for the pudding!

[@emotionalinvalid]

lol, but sad to hear that. you would think such an important audio would have been better produced. could it be that one of Julian's associates was typing on the keyboard too close to mic?

[@carolreid5405]

emotionalinvalid Actually, do you think that if they had cleaned it up, first, then critics could demean it as as not being the original, and possibly draw conclusions that it might be doctored.?? Now, after airing the original, it would be great if someone could.?

[@amycrunch3812]

Lisa Shields was typing, yes. She spills her wine into the keyboard and Julian saves the computer. Full length is several hours. At the WL website.

[@amycrunch3812]

@@carolreid5405 The best way is to follow the MP3 recording from the site with the transcript from the site.

[@amycrunch3812]

Does Julian eat anything?

[@johnleehudson7307]

Listen & Learn! After the 21st time of hearing each word of this recording, like a form of Artificial Intelligence, it begins to take on an ability to function within your mind, all on its own! This is one of The Greatest Recordings ever, to also put on when you are going to sleep, so you have no resistance to a new & positive Life Form beginning to operate in your conscience!♠

[@andihow421]

"and odin?" bahaha

[@carolreid5405]

andihow421 Odour.?

[@thealienpredatorfly]

Odin?

[@harrylongofficial6248]

Christ! Where was this recorded, in a KITCHEN???

[@jillfryer6699]

Read the book. or the pdf. footnotes are terrific.

[@cropcircle5693]

And doesn't know about Bitcoin. Pretty weird.

[@amycrunch3812]

Schmidt? He doesn't know schmidt.

[@jillfryer6699]

unbelievable that anyone believes that.

[@jillfryer6699]

@@amycrunch3812 perhaps its a subtle hint that he has caught on to the tor-thor trick. Whether or not Mr Smith gets that message I wouldnt have a clue and I'm not going to listen 21 times.

[@christopherkettler8727]

Shit i want to listen to this but the noise is fucking me up

[@jillfryer6699]

book

[@nenesp2818]

Vengo por qué Martha está suscrita a este canal de que es?

[@elkore571]

Martha no está aquí :v

[@Anhaa0]

Damn, pretty annoying to listen to...

[@amycrunch3812]

Don't listen.