Snowden, Assange and Wikileaks

Those Conspiracy Guys

Gordon Rochford

True Crime, Comedy, History

4.4 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2016

⏱️ 272 minutes

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DEEP DIVE - On this episode we look at Edward Snowden, Julian Assange,Wikileaks, the newly formed fifth estate and the ensuing war onwhistleblowers. The current raging debate surround the sharing ofclassified cables and state secrets and the slow erosion of ourprivacy online. Through the life of Julian Assange and the creation of Wikileakswe cover the incredible history of data and secret documentreleases such as the Guantanamo torture techniques and ScientologyManuals, culminating in the Bradley Manning leak of the Iraq warfiles and the now infamous Collateral Murder video. We'll also take a long look at former NSA employee Edward Snowden, who is now in exile in Russia, and whose revelationssurrounding the NSA and it's global spying network and espionagepractices have changed the way governments are seen today. Herevealed the nefarious methods with which the global intelligencecommunity sticks their fingers in your digital dinner. ________________________This podcast is supported by the generous donations of the wonderful folks over at Patreon. If you want to support the show and get exclusive content, ad-free episodes, access to live chats and private social media like Instagram and Discord and a whole load of other stuff click here http://bit.ly/TCG-PatreonIf you want to follow TCG on social platforms including the Discord, watch video versions of the livestream podcast and documentaries; or even join in on live chats about current events; buy TCG merch; get notifications of and buy tickets to upcoming live stage shows or to just support the show on Patreon; all the links, info and instructions you can find by clicking this link http://www.linktr.ee/thoseconspiracyguys Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This time, on those conspiracy guys, we have our bugger bag at the ready and are constantly
0:11.9	deleting our browser history as we prepare to lap up the leaks and explore the murky
0:16.4	waters of government wrongdoings.
0:18.2	When we take a look at the war on the whistleblowers and this goes to superstars of subterfuge,
0:23.2	Edward Snowden and Julian Assange.
0:30.8	With the evolution of the internet infrastructure and the activist community came the birth of
0:34.6	a new type of warfare against the corrupt capitalist warlords that plague modern society.
0:40.2	Through the earliest types of computers, activists and computer nerds across the intersecting
0:43.5	boundaries of self-policing and creating an environment that was a problem for the establishment.
0:48.6	The open source nature of the internet evolved into a haven for societal mischief makers
0:52.2	of political pranksters.
0:57.8	With the rapid advancement of technology, the world intelligence community has been given
1:01.6	the gift of technological saturation, with which they can enact our wet dream or
1:06.0	well-earned mind policing for their own nefarious ends.
1:11.8	The first signs of the shaman to the public was through a lone maverick intelligence agent
1:15.4	whose guilty conscience and moral fiber caused him to reach out to tell of his privacy in
1:20.4	annihilating nightmare.
1:25.6	Edward Snowden told the world of this morally corrupt US government plot to steal our
1:28.8	information and use it against our knowledge and wealth and is now enemy number one in
1:32.6	the eyes of the global intelligence community.
1:34.9	The secret Snowden revealed a considered the worst leak of government secrets in human history
1:38.7	and a kickstart of worldwide program of protests and counter operations in internet privacy.
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