Good morning everyone and thank you for joining us for the press conference on the filing of a complaint concerning unconstitutional surveillance of Julian Assange and attorneys and journalists who visited him. I'm Heidi Bogosian. I'll be moderating this morning. We'd like to ask journalists if you haven't already to please turn off your camera and to mute yourself. When we get to the question and answer portion we will ask you to unmute yourself if you have a question to ask. Today we'll be hearing from six speakers. They are Richard Roth, Lead Attorney of the Roth Law Firm, Robert Boyle, Civil Rights and Constitutional Attorney Consulting with Richard Roth on the case, Margaret Ratner-Counselor, Criminal and Civil Rights Attorney and a plaintiff in the case, Deborah Herbeck, a media attorney, John Getz, a journalist who visited Julian Assange and Nathan Fuller, Director of the Assange Defense Committee. We will begin with Richard Roth. Richard, thank you. Heidi, thank you for having me and thank you for everyone attending. We commenced the lawsuit this morning on behalf of several people who actually went to the Ecuadorian Embassy to visit Julian Assange and unbeknownst to them, we've learned through several sources that in fact all of their equipment when they went into the embassy were taken, imaged and in addition their conversations were recorded by a company at the direction of Mike Pompeo of the CIA. It is somewhat startling that in light of the Fourth Amendment protection we have in the Constitution that the federal government would actually go ahead and take this confidential information, some of which the attorney-client privilege, some of which were the journalists, and even some of which were doctors that visited Mr. Assange. So we commenced an action against the CIA, Mr. Pompeo and the various entities that were engaged in these nefarious activities based on the Fourth Amendment for damages and for the return of all this information, which was improperly gathered during the visits to Mr. Assange. You're muted. How do you mute it? Apologies. Thank you for that, Richard. Now we will hear from Robert Boyle, a New York civil rights and constitutional law attorney who is consulting with Mr. Roth. Good morning everyone. Yes, my name is Robert Boyle and I'm an attorney here in New York City and I'm consulting with Attorney Roth on this case. The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution protects U.S. citizens from being subjected to unreasonable searches and seizures. That fundamental principle applies to searches and seizures directed toward U.S. citizens by U.S. law enforcement anywhere in the world. The Fourth Amendment's protections were blatantly violated here. The contents of the plaintiff's digital devices were secretly copied by security personnel recruited by the CIA and then that information was turned over. This was all part of an intentional plan. The seizure and copying of the digital information contained in people's devices, you know, it does not only violate the plaintiff's rights and tangentially and we'll get to this more later, Mr. Assange's rights. But think of what we store in our phones and our computers, birthdays, bank information, dates of birth, all of this was recorded and then given over to the Central Intelligence Agency. So the violations of the privacy rights here were particularly egregious. Of course, Mr. Assange's rights, I would submit to a fair trial have now been tainted, if not destroyed. The recording of meetings with friends, with lawyers, the copying of his attorneys and friends' digital information taints the criminal prosecution because now the government knows the contents of those communications. And there should be sanctions even up to dismissal of those charges or withdrawal of an extradition request in response to these blatantly unconstitutional activities. Thank you. Thank you, Bob. And now we'll hear from Margaret Ratner-Kunzler, a criminal and civil rights attorney and also a plaintiff in the case. As a criminal attorney, I don't think that there's anything worse than your opposition listening in on what your plans are, what you intend to do, and your conversations. It's really, it's a terrible thing and it's treated by the United States courts as a terrible thing. This is not something that hasn't happened very occasionally in the US and the result has very often been a dismissal of the indictment. I'll give you one example and there are others who will give others. In the wounded case, there was an FBI agent who listened in at the door and reported. He also did a couple of other things like dealing with a witness. The judge in that case dismissed the indictment for gross misconduct. And gross misconduct is exactly what has happened here. And I don't understand how the CIA, I guess through the insanity of Pompeo, could think that they could do this. This is so outrageous that it's beyond my comprehension. Thank you, Margaret. Now we'll hear from Deborah Herbeck, a media attorney who has visited Mr. Assange. Good morning. I am a media lawyer and I have represented WikiLeaks journalists and videographers. I visited Julian Assange at the Ecuador Embassy in London a few times during his stay there to discuss sensitive legal matters. On arrival, there was a strict protocol for the protection of Julian, we were told. Passports, mobile phones, cameras, laptops, reporting devices and other electronic equipment were turned over to the security guards in the lobby. We learned much later through a criminal investigation under the supervision of a court in Spain that while visitors like me were meeting with Julian in the embassy conference room, the guards next door were taking apart our phones, removing and photographing SIM cards and we believed downloading data from our electronic equipment. Their boss, David Morales from UC Global, who appears to have been recruited by the CIA through the associates of Sheldon Adelson during a visit to a tech conference, was making regular trips to Washington, DC, to New York, to Las Vegas, reportedly to hand over thumb drives and to receive further instructions from his US government handlers. In other words, during our meetings with Julian at the embassy, recordings of our confidential conversations and the contents of our electronic devices were being delivered into the hands of the United States government. I'm a New York lawyer. I have the right to assume that the US government is not listening to my private and privileged conversations with my clients and that information about other clients and cases I may have on my phone or laptop are secure from illegal government intrusion. This is not just a violation of our constitutional rights. This is an outrage. Thank you. Next, we'll hear from John Getz, a journalist who also visited Mr. Assange. Yeah, good morning. My name is John Getz and I work. I'm the editor of investigations for the German public broadcaster NDR. And between 2011 and 2017, together with the Suddeutsche Zeitung, we were in a partnership. Well, we were often partners, but at that way with WikiLeaks when it came to doing different stories. And we went to the embassy. I went to the embassy repeatedly in that time, also 2015, 16, 17, to discuss stories and basically to have kind of, you know, editorial discussions about stories we were going to do or not do. And I find it quite disturbing that what was essentially a private editorial situation was conceivably or possibly or likely being listened to. The procedure that the others have spoken about was also the procedure that I experienced in the many times I went to the embassy that my phone was taken. Often other electronic stuff was there. I'd love to find out exactly what was done. I also know because I am and the broadcaster NDR is behind this, we also sued UC Global in the Spanish case for having listened to our conversations. And we found in that process, a series of documents that they prepared about my meetings with Assange when they're. And so I just find it very disturbing. And I thought that we were protected, especially as an American citizen by the Fourth Amendment. Thank you, John. Our final speaker is Nathan Fuller. Nathan is Director of the Assange Defense Committee. Thanks, Heidi. And the Assange Defense Committee can be found at AssangeDefense.org. I just want to give an overview of, put this in context a little bit. I remind people Julian Assange is facing extradition from the UK to the United States, where he's charged an unprecedented charges for publishing. Julian is currently detained in the maximum security Belmarsh prison in London. He's been there for three and a half years. Nearly three full years of which has been for no conviction at all. He's just imprisoned because the US has requested his extradition. And so here in the US, we're fighting against that extradition, but we're also building a support network in the event that he is ultimately extradited. And we want to educate the public about the dangers that the prosecution poses to all of our basic rights. Our journalists write to publish what is in the public interest and our own right to know what our governments are doing in our name. And the public should know the lengths that its own government is willing to go to, to silence the journalist who publishes information embarrassing to the regime, spying on his conversations, seizing devices of his visitors, and even plotting to kidnap and kill him as Yahoo News reported, all while he was a political assailee of Ecuador. So this should worry anybody who values investigative journalists and journalism and the and the unprecedented and should be aware of the unprecedented threat that this prosecution poses to it. So please check out assangedefense.org. We have upcoming events listed on our events page and we keep covering the extradition proceedings court reports so you can go there for more information. Thank you, Nathan. And now we will entertain questions. I see that a few hands are already raised. For others, please push the button inside the Zoom to raise your hand, and we will call on you one at a time. When called on, please state your name and your media affiliation. Thank you. Are you going to tell us who you're calling? Yes, Trevor, are you going to be calling on people? Or shall I just start while you're waiting? Yes, thank you. Please do. Hello, my name is Joshua Rosenberg. I'm a UK based legal journalist, and I've been covering this case really since the start. I appreciate that you're ultimately suggesting that this should lead to the withdrawal of the application for extradition. But in the meantime, are you alleging that there's any breach of English law? And are you saying that this should have any impact on the proceedings in England and Wales at the moment? This is Richard Roth. I can answer that. We are alleging that it is a breach of the Fourth Amendment of the US Constitution. Bob, you can chime in as well. Any US citizen, whether they're in the country or not, is entitled to the search and seizure clause to not be searched or have their information seized. So it is really specific to the US Constitution and not to British law. But I would imagine that British law has something parallel, but this lawsuit is in the US. It is in New York. It is on behalf of US citizens, and it is for a violation of the US Constitution. So it's not going to have any impact on the current proceedings in the United Kingdom unless you persuade the US government to withdraw the extradition request. Bob, I think that's fair. You're muted, Bob. Bob, you're muted. Certainly that's a question that could be better answered by the attorneys representing Mr. Assange in the extradition proceeding. But this particular case is seeking relief in the US courts for violation of US constitutional rights. It may very well have an effect legally in the UK. But that's something you should post to his attorneys in that proceeding. Okay. Thank you very much. I'd also like to, I think Deborah would like to comment on that as well. I just had a brief, Bob kind of handled it, but I just had a brief, wanted to make the point that one of the components of whether extradition is appropriate is whether Mr. Assange is likely to have a fair trial in the US. And this is just one of many indications that that's not in fact the case. So I would imagine that the behavior should certainly should have an impact. Mr. Gillum. Mr. Gillum. Oh, hi. Can you all hear me okay? Yes. Okay. Sorry, I'm having a camera trouble so I apologize. So I'm Jack Gillum with Bloomberg News on the technology team. I just had a question. I was interested in your complaint about this FTP server that was used for what appear to be conversations. And I assume I use some clarification that that included copies of phones or laptops or other data that was provided to the CIA. I'm just wondering if you could just provide a little more detail about how you came to know of that transmission process. I mean, that's pretty interesting way for the government to get that information. And if you could also a second question if you could speak to if there were any other government agencies such as the Justice Department or other investigators under either the current or last administration that may have gotten access to this data as well. I know you're only suing the CIA but I wasn't sure if other US agencies may have gotten a copy of this too. Thank you very much. Sure. So I can take that. There is a Spanish court proceeding. There's a proceeding going on in Spain where all of this information is coming out. In fact, they've subpoenaed Mike Pompeo to testify. And what we've learned from this proceeding, although a lot of it is sealed, is that there was a process by which we believe the CIA actually implemented a procedure which the CIA implemented to obtain not only the recordings that is the conversations that were had by the Assange and his lawyers Assange and his doctors, but also as Deborah pointed out, very specifically, when one went into the Ecuadorian embassy, there was a process by which you gave them everything. And we've learned through the Spanish proceeding that everything there was copied. Every single person that went to see join Assange at the embassy, all of their information was imaged and we have reason to believe, based on the allegation of the complaint, that that was all done at the direction of the CIA, as well as comments made by Pompeo when he first was appointed the director of the CIA. So it's very outrageous conduct. And we believe that between, it's detailed in the complaint, there was a Las Vegas convention, there were communications, and all of which is a subject of the Spanish court proceeding. Thank you. Excellent. Margaret Kimberly. Sorry about that. Margaret Kimberly. Hi, good morning. Question, you mentioned Pompeo was CIA director and then Secretary of State. So these events began when he was CIA director. This is prior to his being Secretary of State? That is correct. That is correct. And in the complaint, we detail the fact that when Pompeo, the very first thing Pompeo did when he was actually appointed the director of the CIA was he had a press release. He had to get a press conference, in fact, where he denounced Julian Assange, and he went on about how he is essentially he says that essentially, and it's in paragraphs 22, 23, 24, 25 of the complaint, he pinned Julian Assange as being a non-state, hostile, intelligent service. Something I've never heard of before. Julian Assange, as mentioned earlier, was a publisher. To say that a publisher is a non-state, hostile, intelligent service sends a shock wave to the entire public, to every publisher in this country. And so that's essentially, yes, that is essentially alleged to the complaint, and that is, and those are the facts that we've learned. Thank you. Then Joe Laurier. Yes, hello. Joe Laurier, editor-in-chief of Consortium News, a question about discovery. Are you concerned, especially now that you've included the CIA as a defendant, that they will invoke, the government will invoke state secrets, privileged to prevent any discovery whatsoever? Listen, we don't think this will be an easy task. We know the previous administration has essentially tried to block every subpoena issued. In fact, my understanding is that Michael Pompeo is even not compliant with the Spanish subpoena. So discovery will be a difficult process. However, we will have a federal court judge who presumably will be non-biased, who will insist that certain documents, certain individuals be produced and be presented. So that's a process we're going to have. We're willing to take on. Now, Pompeo, you're suing as a private individual, correct? We're suing, yes. He was suing as a private individual because at the time he was actually director of the CIA and there's a law out there, there's precedent out there, which Bob can speak to, which allows you to sue the presiding, the person presiding over that agency. Just a quick follow up on whether this can affect the extradition proceedings at all. Obviously, even Vanessa Barraza at the lowest court heard about this. There was testimony from witnesses in the UC Global case in Madrid. So she and the High Court and the Supreme Court didn't even take the case and then ultimately Pretty Patel have all been aware of these things that the lawsuit, your lawsuit is alleging. That can inspire a lot of confidence that would actually impact the decision on the extradition, would it? Well, I mean, I don't necessarily agree that they wouldn't take it. That case is pending. We know that there's a lot of, there's a lot of competences. We know that there's a, if you will, a lot of it is sealed, but a good amount has come out. A lot of information has come out, which would lead us to the conclusions that are presented in the complaint. Now, what I meant was that the British courts and the Home Secretary have not have gone ahead with the extradition, even though they're all aware of what you're alleging pretty much that came out earlier. That's true. But as the first questioner asked, the British courts are not looking at it from a US constitutional eye. We are looking at it purely based on the Fourth Amendment. The Fourth Amendment does not let you do that. And that was never presented to the British courts or even to the Spanish courts. Now, thank you. Thank you very much. Okay, Mary Tostakidis. Thank you, Trevor. My question is to the attorneys, just with respect to how this case might impact on the UK and their ability to extradite him, I'm just wondering whether you have any idea how long this case will run and when you would expect a decision. And secondly, I'm sure that this isn't lost on anyone, the parallels with Dan Ellsberg. And I was wondering if you might go into that a little bit to talk about the direct parallels, but where this case might differ to Ellsberg's as well. So I can handle the first portion of that. I'm not sure, Margaret, if you can handle the second. But I would say to you that this process, obviously the US court system is not quick. Federal court is quicker than state. COVID did not help that. But this process, we're hoping to move it quickly. We're hoping that within a year at most, if not earlier, we're going to seek a judge immediately. And we'll get this, we want to get this, there's a lot riding on this lawsuit, as well as a lot riding on Julian Assange's current status. So I could speak to that as far as the comparing it to the Ellsberg lawsuit, Margaret. Is that something you can handle? Yes. I think that we all agree that this indictment is really an attempt to overrule that case. That case provided for the press be able to print documents that were under some kind of private government seal, whether it was top secret, not top secret, but any information that the government didn't want out came out and could come out. And that is still the law today. But it's obvious to us that the government is not happy with that law and would prefer to have that case overruled. Yes. No, I was, thank you for that. I was thinking specifically of the fair trial issue and the breach of confidence, the fact that they broke into down Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office. And here you've got Julian Assange's lawyer's material being sent to the CIA. So how do you feel, do you have a sense that the case is as, that part of the case is as strong and are there differences that we might know about? The issues here have not been raised by Julian Assange and cannot be raised by Julian Assange until he is here, until his trial begins, if he's extradited. We can only raise it in our context, as our rights were violated. There is no way for Julian to raise the violation of his rights at this time. And Bob, could you also weigh in on that? Well, there will be, you know, things are going to happen as we proceed. This civil case will proceed to discovery. Hopefully more information will come out, whether that information shows serious intrusions into the defense camp as we allege. And as we have strong reason to believe from the Spanish courts, it may very well have an effect on the criminal prosecution or the extradition proceeding. But right now we're in the stage of, this particular case is brought by the people who were aggrieved by the unreasonable searches and seizures that occurred when they simply visited this man in prison and attorneys who were doing their job. That's what this case is about. Mary, does that answer your question? It is a way though of drawing attention to one aspect of the way that US government misconduct started with this case with Julian. And there are many other examples of it. But we can't really raise that. In fact, we can raise it with the public and we try to convince the Justice Department that this is not a good case to continue with it. It's not good for them to continue the extradition proceeding because this is not a good case for them to try. Yes, sorry. Just one other thing. However, if and when you do get a decision, if it is in your favor, that decision could be used by Julian Assange's lawyers in the United Kingdom in that case, I presume. Can anyone comment on that? Certainly, I think that's a very fair presumption. One of the things we ask for is not only money damages, but we've asked the CIA to destroy and or return everything it has. So, yes, this could have very far-reaching consequences to the British proceeding. Thank you. Okay, Mohamed, you're next. But right before you go, I just want to restate if anyone does not have a copy of the press release, which includes a link to the actual suit, please email me trevorfg at protonmail.com, trevorfg at protonmail.com. Mohamed? Thank you, Trevor. You've actually answered one of my questions. So that saves a bit of time. So my name is Mohamed Amazi. I'm a UK based freelance journalist. I've been covering Julian's case since the outset, the extradition case that is. So you've already answered where we could get the suit. So I'll email you. But I do have a question in relation to Judge Beretser's decision in her judgment when she granted, well, she refused extradition on mental health grounds. But she dismissed all the other grounds, including the argument that there was spying by the CIA on privileged communications. And she raised a number of issues, including the fact that the Spanish case had yet to be completed. So it wasn't, you know, there wasn't a clear finding of fact from a court. But one of the issues she raised, she or the argument she raised, was that even if this did happen, this was done by the CIA. And surely there would be a firewall between the Department of Justice and the CIA and DOJ lawyers would know that they wouldn't be allowed to use anything that would come from the violation of privileged communication. So really, there's no there there in relation to this. So how would you, presumably that that might be an argument that could be raised in the U.S., how would you address that particular critique or argument that Judge Beretser raised? Well, I jumped in on that one. Should that happen, the government would have to prove that the information that it has is not tainted by the illegal searches and seizures. So the onus will be on the government. It's not simply a fact. Well, the government would stand up and say, we have this wall, nothing is going to be shared. They're going to have to prove that at that time. And clearly, if Mr. Assange is in this country, his attorneys will have the opportunity to challenge all of that. But right now, it's unclear at best as to whether any such wall would protect Mr. Assange's due process rights. So that's settled law then that under such a circumstance, there's an onus, what within the balance of probabilities or what for the state to have to prove that violations did not taint the defendant's rights. Yes, in most cases, that's true. Absolutely. And go ahead. Sorry. No, finish your thought. And then I would really like Debbie to weigh in on this as well. Oh, no, I was going to ask this a follow up question. So please go ahead, Deborah, if you had the Well, I just wanted to make the point that Vanessa Barris is a magistrate. Her rulings are by no means the final word on this. This question and many, many others on which she initially indicated that the extradition request was valid are the subject of an appeal now that's been filed by Julian Assange UK team and that will be expanded upon by the end of the month. So I would urge people to pay attention to what's going on there. There's a lot more to be heard on those arguments. That's great. We have a number of people who have questions. So we're going to have to move on, but if you have if you want to email me, I can connect you to appropriately appropriate attorneys. Canisca from Raiders. Hi guys, I hope I'm audible. So I just had one question, which was that is this lawsuit entirely focused on the alleged spying of Assange and the journalists and attorneys who met him? Or is this also centered on the alleged assassination plans that Yahoo News had reported last year? What's the score? Any of us can answer that the answer is it's the former not the latter. It is focused on the spying. The plaintiffs here remember are the people that are that are on this on this Zoom chat, all of whom have had rights violated. Okay, thank you. Okay, Cathy, who do we have next? We have Joe Lauria and William Goodman and Chip Gibbons. Okay, which which go to William Goodwin if that's okay. Yes, hello. Could you tell me could you elaborate a bit about the strength of the evidence showing that material went from the US Embassy through to the the CIA? I think as far as I understand, there are quite a number of dots that need to be joined in order to show that that took place. Could you talk me through that? So so I can start and Bob, you can chime in. If you look at the complaint, you start in the paragraphs in the 20s and go onward. You could see we describe how this entire process was thought up up of. We've taken information from the Spanish court system. We've taken information that Pompeo himself stated and certainly there's plenty of circumstantial evidence right now that would lead a reasonable try or a fact, which is a juror to conclude that the CIA possesses it. Certainly we are will be entitled through discovery to get more information. But the the nucleus of information we have thus far, which is predominantly the the allegations we've learned as well as the Spanish court proceeding, lead us to that conclusion. Okay, Matthew Russell. Yeah, sure. Thanks a lot. Matthew Russell, the inner city press, I've emailed you for the complaint itself, but I wanted to ask I guess I cover the southern district of New York courthouse. And I wanted to know whether you guys have asked for any emergency relief, because cases do go quite slow here, as I'm sure you know. And whether I also cover here the recent case of Joshua Schulte, who was accused of leaking vault seven to wiki leaks. And it was sealed. The case was the trial was sealed. He tried to get Pompey, we couldn't get him in as a witness. I'm wondering, I guess, if you could just speak more sort of about the legal strategy to actually have this impact, the, you know, impending or possible extradition in terms of the speed of the case. Thanks a lot. George, so we have not sought any expedited discovery yet. We want to have a judge assigned. It's we're an inch, we're an interesting yet odd world. On the one hand, there's COVID, which slows everything down. On the other hand, judges are setting up conferences, everything's done by zoom, so it's a much easier process. So once the judge is assigned, we will we will decide Bob and I and our team will decide whether or not we want expert or discovery. As far as Pompeo fighting it, we expect it, we expect him to fight that. We never thought this was an easy challenge, but we're bringing it on. I want to get a Chip Gibbons, but right before I do, I just want to also announce that I'm going to provide a link to the to the lawsuit that has been filed in this chat. I think that way everybody can immediately get it. If that's good. Excellent. So Chip. Oh yeah, this is Chip Gibbons. I'm covering today's press conference for Jacob and magazine. My question is for the attorneys. The US court system has raised over the last two decades now a number of barriers to bringing any sort of recovery for human rights or civil liberties abuses. Joe from good source of news mentioned to stay secret doctrine. But even before that point, I mean, after people who were rounded up after number 11 tried to sue John Ashcroft in Ashcroft v Iqbal, the Supreme Court just raised the pleading standard for civil litigation across the board. I know you can't comment on legal strategy, but how do you see yourself overcoming these barriers that have been raised in other cases where people had very serious plans of human rights abuses and surveillance? Bob, you want to take that? Sure. Well, there is a just a little bit of history. There's a case from 1970 or is it 1971, where the Supreme Court held that it's called Bivens versus six unknown agents of the FBI, that an individual can sue for his or her violation of their Fourth Amendment rights and can sue federal agents in their individual capacity. Now, has that right been chipped away by over the years by the Supreme Court and by other federal courts? Yes, it has, but there's still is that avenue to seek relief. And you know, we as lawyers, what the court does is what the court is going to do. And what we are fighting for is to vindicate those rights as they exist under the law or as they should exist under the law. And so the fact that lower federal courts and the Supreme Courts have chipped away at some of those rights is not a reason not to bring the lawsuit. In fact, you know, maybe we'll, you know, surprise everyone and make good law in this case. But you know, that's what that's what it's about. It's about fighting to vindicate the rights of individuals who have been agreed by government misconduct. We also have a question from Joe Laurier on jurisdiction. Why choose the Southern District of New York since the CIA is in Eastern Virginia? Are we trying to avoid the notorious Eastern District of Virginia? This is Richard Roth. No, we are not. We're not trying to avoid any jurisdiction. The bottom line is that if there is substantial conduct, either by the conducting of business or the transacting of business in New York state, then there's jurisdiction in New York. The CIA, there's jurisdiction in every state. So we actually looked at that closely and there's plenty of activity that occurred in New York state to which resulted in the bringing of the case in the Southern District. There was another question posted to the chat. Is the Department of Justice Trial Integrity Unit assessing this in another case they dropped charges on FMRIT expert to Clinton and Gore as a result of FBI wiretap into being allegedly shared with co-investigators at the SEC? So we don't know what the Department of Justice is doing, but honestly, they should be looking into this. There's no reason why, particularly lawyers, but anyone who's a citizen of the US should have be interfered with. The Fourth Amendment is one of our long and proud amendments to the US Constitution. So absolutely, they should be looking into this because quite frankly, this was done under color of law and it violated several people's rights. The plaintiffs here are not the only people that visited Julian Assange. There are, and I believe it's alleged in the complaint, hundreds of people that visited and we believe that each and every one of those people rights were violated. So this should be looked at by the Department of Justice. Also, William Goodwin asked if there's any evidence that is stronger than circumstantial evidence of the CIA receiving material from the Ecuadorian embassy? So we hit that, we hit on that one a little bit. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. We hit on that a little bit. There is strong circumstantial evidence that the CIA has this information. We believe there's sufficient evidence to put it to alleged in a complaint and we further believe that once we take the deposition and we get documents from UC, from UC Global, from different entities, we will be, we're going to find some very, very troubling facts which really are at the hands of the CIA and Mike Pompeo. The other part of it is that in the Spanish court, not only did Mike Pompeo refuse to testify, but the Spanish court asks the Justice Department if they would review certain addresses that came up during the context of the trial about where the material was transferred to and where it was requested and the U.S. refused to do that. And I would also add that in the Spanish proceedings, witnesses have testified as to conversations with Mr. Morales who's also a defendant in this case and a defendant in the Spanish proceedings where he admitted essentially that information was being not, not essentially. He admitted that he was recruited by American intelligence and provided the information to American intelligence under the rules of evidence and admission is not circumstantial evidence. It's direct evidence and it can be also admitted to show the guilt of other parties if you show that there was a conspiracy. So there is here and there some direct evidence. Do we hope to get more? Yes. And on the basis of what we do already have, we have a good faith effort. We can, we can make a good faith effort to get additional information that would prove the clients forever. You're muted. You're muted. I just wanted to let folks know that I have uploaded a link to the lawsuit that was filed this morning. And it is in the Zoom chat. So folks should be able to get a copy of it there. Todd McGreevy from River Cities Reader has a question. What was the shield in Adelson reference at the start of the news conference missed his alleged role in these allegations? Deb, you want to take that one? Or essentially the the allegation is that, and there's a lot of information to support this, that David Morales, who was the CEO of UC Global, went to a Las Vegas convention called the SHOT convention, the private security company convention in Las Vegas in January 2017 or thereabouts. And there he was bragging about the fact that they had the gig at the embassy to monitor Julian Assange and the Sheldon Adelson's security detail, we believe at that point, who were very connected with the Trump administration, a recruited David Morales, and he returned from that trip and bragged to his employees that they were essentially working for the dark side. He's a mercenary now. It's, you know, big time. There's a lot of quotes about this. And this is all from this all came out in the course of the criminal investigation against UC Global that's going on in Spain right now that is being supervised by a high court judge there. And that is the judge that has seen enough evidence to ask the Mike Pompeo to testify to flesh out what's really what the CIA links are, that the IP address queries and other request for information and interrogatories that have been sent to the US government and have been totally ignored. No, they're not denying it. They're just ignoring it. They're not cooperating with a judge in Spain who's trying to investigate exactly this issue. So that's where it comes from. And I see that Kelly Lane and Sean Waterman have their hands up. Kelly, could you start please? Yes, just one moment. Let me get my camera on. So my question is about the court district. Is this this is the southern district of New York? Is that's the same where Donziker's case was heard? I just I guess I wanted to know if anyone had any more information about what the possible who the possible judges are because you know, we say someone said it presumed, you know, fairness in the court. But I just wanted to know if anyone could elaborate on that a little bit. Abab, you want to take that one? Well, I mean, there are dozens of district judges in, you know, in the southern district. We don't know yet which judge has been assigned to this case. I we made, I would think here about that today, but there are dozens of district court judges. And when you file a lawsuit, it's assigned to a particular judge on a random basis. But we don't have the name of that judge yet. Okay, thank you. Sean Waterman. Oh, sorry. I'm sorry, Kelly. Did you have more? No, I was just saying thank you. I just, you know, that case was very concerning the way things were ruled there. But, you know, so thank you. Sean? Yeah, I'd like to ask the defendants. I mean, forgive me for not turning my camera on the apartment's a bit of a mess today. I'd like to ask the plaintiffs, rather, if they would characterize the danger that this alleged behavior by the CIA represents and sort of how they personally feel about, you know, what if it's true is a fairly egregious violation of their privacy. Thank you. I just wanted to say one thing. And that is, is that when our electronic devices or my electronic devices were copied or whatever, that that it's not just my dealings with Assange, right? As a journalist, I'm involved in an investigative team, as I said before, with the Suddeutsche at the time and NDR. And there's a whole lot of stories that, that there's a lot of information about those stories in our devices and in my device. And so that's another reason why I think it's important. I, Muhammad has a has a quick follow up question, if we can go to this. He asks, if we actually have standing to ask or demand that the expedition request be dropped, given that the lawsuit is being brought only on behalf of U.S. persons who are not acting on Julian's behalf. So we're not asking just so we're clear, we are not asking if the extradition proceeding be dropped. But some of the comments made here, particularly by the plaintiffs, are that how fair can that be? If in fact, they're taking our information, this, the result of this litigation is not to drop it. But there's, but it has tremendous, there's a ripple effect. And the ripple effect is how fair is it for the U.S. government or for the BRICS to continue to go after Julian Assange, when in fact they're engaging in this conduct? Deb, I think you want to add to that? Yes, I do. In the actual court case, part of the relief that we're requesting does not include dropping the charges, dropping the extradition. But as an American citizen, as an attorney, as a human being, I am many of my colleagues, including the plaintiffs, are absolutely calling on the DOJ to drop the charges, to not counter the appeal that's being lodged based on an extradition charge that is commenced by the Trump administration. Obama never, ever, never did this. This was something that the Trump administration did, and the, for whatever reason, the Biden administration, the Merrick Garlander, permitting this to continue, even though it's anathema to democratic values of press freedom. This is a much broader issue than the court case. The court case is about our constitutional rights, but we are categorically calling for the extradition case to be dropped. And there's a certain irony here in that this morning, this very morning, Rand Paul, Senator Rand Paul actually is asking for the repeal of the Espionage Act, the very act which they're going after Julian for. So hopefully that consensus will get stronger. And yes, that's not the goal of this lawsuit, but that we can't deny that that is a goal. Okay, we are, I think we have time for maybe one or two more. Kathy, I don't know if there was a time limit on this, but so I'm not sure when it's going to... No time limit. Oh, no time limit. That's just fantastic. Let's be here all day. I think a few individuals have left their hands up. So to make sure we see who really has another question. I think Joe Lauria has a follow-up. I know that. Margaret does too. Perfect. Joe, are you there? Little tech issue, perhaps. How about Margaret? Thank you. Are you anticipating Margaret Kimberly from Black Agenda Report?  Is there some sort of executive privilege he can claim? What do you think his defense will be? Bob, you want to handle that? Either of us can do it. I mean, we assume he'll raise a whole host of defenses. I wouldn't want to speculate as to what he would raise at this point. We're going out on a limb to say that, as Richard said earlier, that there's going to be issues of executive privilege and secrets and so forth that are raised at a minimum in the course of discovery and maybe as substantive defenses to the case. So we'll see. Once we've served the complaint, the bullet is now in their court to issue a responsive pleading and we'll see what that says. If there are no more questions, Nathan and Deb, I know that you talked about some resources for any journalists who might want some more information. Nathan, I don't know if you want to give out a few websites or, and Deb, you too, if there are a few websites that you encourage people to go to. Absolutely. Yes. I just posted the filing and the copy of this press conference actually on to assangedefense.org. So that's the place to go for courtroom reports. You can see a guide to the extradition hearing and recounting the testimony as well as upcoming events and how to get involved or to learn more. So that's assangedefense.org. Deb, do you have any other? Yes. I am posting links to two really important publications. One is, I just got one, Niels Meltzer, who was the UN Special Aperture on torture, has recently published a fantastic book, really delving into the character assassination of Julian Assange and how the government has manipulated the way in which people see Assange and how effective that's been as a tool to undermine the very legitimate arguments that we have. And then a little bit older but still extremely important is the, or books, anthology of essays about the trial of Julian Assange in the public, really, in the public sphere. And it's got essays by renowned academics and philosophers and journalists all over the world who are supportive of the case and are really driving home why this case is so important for press freedom. And it really criminalizes investigative journalism. And all the journalists here should be extremely concerned about this case reaching our shores, especially with the Supreme Court we've got right now. We can't let this happen. I would encourage everybody who can to download Pompeil's speech that he gave when he first became head of the CIA, where he stated specifically that he was going to go after Assange and he was going to go after people who are working with Assange. So that's another admission against interest. You're muted, Trevor. It'd be great if you had somebody who knew what they were doing. Sorry about that. For any journalist who has any further questions or would like to speak to any of the participants, I have put my email and cell phone in the message to everyone in the chat. So feel free to email or call if you'd like to follow up with anybody else. And thank you all for your very thoughtful questions. Thank you, Heidi and Trevor. Take care, everyone. Have a great day. Bye. Take care. Thank you. Bye. Thank you all. If you are a consumer of independent news, then the first place you should be going to is Consolidating News. And please do try to support them when you can. It doesn't have its articles behind a paywall. It's free for everyone. It's one of the best news sites out there and it's been in the business of independent journalism and adversarial independent journalism for over two decades. I hope that with the public's continuing support of Consolidating News, it will continue for a very long time to come. Thank you so much.


Hi there! Welcome to City Talk. This is Karen Kostefik with the Park Rangers and I am so happy to be telling you about our upcoming Winter Solstice Lantern Parade. This is our second year celebrating the solstice and it falls on Friday, December 21st. We will start gathering at 5 p.m. at 312 Laurel, which is beside the Red School House. As it gets dark, we will begin to parade down into the park proper, probably around 6 o'clock, so everyone has a chance to light their lanterns and enjoy a lovely, slow, thoughtful parade on this, the darkest of days. The parade itself is a way of celebrating the winter solstice. Many people just think about the first day of winter as the solstice. It's a calendar marker, but for people like the Rangers who spend time outside, we have always marked the solstice as that shortest, darkest day. We have the least amount of sunlight in the longest, darkest night. And people around the world for eons have celebrated the solstice and marked that day in many traditions that often included fires and light. All of us want to ask you to only use battery operated lights. Please do not use anything candle operated. These lanterns are made of twigs and paper and would easily ignite. So we want you to emerge inspired and illuminated, but not burnt.  Do not burn the park down. We are only doing battery operated lights. We'll have a fire for marshmallows, hot cocoa, and this year we are super excited to have beer killer hosting another of our happy hours. So on Friday the 21st, bring a little spending money because you can enjoy traditional German fair that evening. If the weather is cold, we'll have the gluglein, the spiced mulled wine that so many people celebrate the holidays with. That'll give you a chance to have something to eat and drink. The children can have cocoa, you can have a beverage, and gather in the company of friends and family. It really, last year was our very first lantern parade and we were thrilled to see about 100 luminaries come down the trail and it was just a wonderful, wonderful night. And I know that people are excited about this year. I am looking forward to gathering with all my friends and lighting up the night on that shortest, darkest day.


Rock and roll time my top three road-running shoes of 2019 But before we dive in a huge Happy birthday to Bob December 13th is Bob's birthday Bob. Happy birthday somehow I found out through the grapevine that it is your birthday. Happy birthday Bob. Thanks for watching the vlog I hope you have an amazing day wherever you're at whatever you're doing. Hopefully having a good time. All right, everyone We're diving in here. We go. I'm doing my best to keep you updated on my training leading into the Houston Marathon Let me know though if I should be doing more talking. I talk a lot in the studio, but more Detail I should say about the actual training that I'm doing So here's the deal the easiest way to figure out what I'm doing is to follow me follow me on Strava Okay, because I all my runs end up on Strava But also I'm doing my best sometimes I forget but I'm doing my best to post my training for the week Down in the description. Now. It's not really detailed But it gives you the basic volume sometimes they go into a little more detail when I'm talking about specific workouts, so Anyway, today's run and I try to let you know Like right now what I did today, so I'm gonna tell you here. We go so today's run today's runs I should say plural ten miles in the morning at about seven ten a mile. So what I would classify as a Steasy to steady pace and Steven steasy some of you have wondered what that means when I post that on Strava Steady plus easy, so it's not quite steady not quite easy, but steasy All right, so there you go So today seven ten a mile and then this afternoon Starting to as I post it on Strava. I said I started to open up the carburetor a little bit So six ten a mile for 13 miles. It's not quite time to start doing workouts That will be happening next week and then also not quite time for threshold runs that will be happening probably like It's about eight days nine days from now when you're watching this. So there you go. That was today's runs Which leads me in to running shoe number three on my list the shoe that I ran for my ran in for my second run Today. Oh man. This was hard. This was hard everyone and I can't believe I'm putting an Asics into the top three running shoes of 2019. There it is the asics glide ride I was on the fence, but after today's second run 13 miles six ten a mile. I was like, yep I it was it was borderline, but I was like, yep, I believe in the shoe I really do because that was the fastest pace I had taken the shoe out and out at and alright So a few specs of the asics glide ride real quick drop six millimeters. So right where I like it I love that six to eight millimeter window for training stack height. We're looking at 35 in the heel 29 in the four foot. So that's uh, that's nice, you know, that's nice cushion and we'll get back to that in a second but not too much it's Gosh, it's not a maximalist shoe. It's borderline borderline maximalist shoe But it doesn't feel like a maximalist shoe like a ton of midsole cushion and then as far as weight goes This is probably the drawback to the shoe. It is a little heavy So for men size nine, we're looking at 10.3 ounces and there it is in grams on your screen or women size nine is Sorry in converting that to women size eight. You're looking at nine point one ounces Now, why did the asics glide ride make the cut for? 2019 first of all, is it worth a hundred and sixty dollars? Oh Boy, that's a lot of money Again borderline. I think I think it is and this is why Maybe not necessarily because of performance, but more so because of build quality I'm telling you I think this shoe can go the distance just feeling it feeling the build quality now Like the through the upper through the outsole through the midsole, but I'm just gonna say in 2020 I hope they update the shoe a little bit and I think the heel counter is a little overbuilt It's just like got a lot of material here in the back of the shoe So in order to drop the weight of the shoe and maybe who knows maybe even drop the price a little bit They could just streamline the heel counter that would be almost my only recommendation for the shoe The shoe has pop now if I if it wasn't so heavy I think it would feel very comfortable for me like today at 545 a mile It's not a racing shoe. I put it in the tempo category and how will I be using the shoe in 2020? You know, I could that's what's beautiful about it You can you go long run if you want definitely a long run shoe, but it has the pop of a of a tempo day Like I did today. So anyway, I love it I'm shocked that I'm putting an ASICs into the top three, but again build quality It has pop and it's you can use it in different ways whether it's a long run or a tempo shoe and oh, yeah One last point. It's a neutral road shoe. Okay, but it's it's it feels almost like a stability shoe You don't feel like you're turning your ankle. It doesn't feel loosey-goosey through the midsole It feels like you're being Guided through your foot strike if that makes sense. So there you go shoe number three to make the list The ASICs glide ride and moving on to shoe number two. Yeah, that's right. It's a Nike there It is the Nike zoom fly three zooming up to position number two for my top road running shoes of 2019 it's got the carbon fiber plate in that midsole You're looking at a eight millimeter drop. So a 40 millimeter stack height in the heel 32 millimeter in the forefoot That's a good chunk of midsole foam to help protect that carbon fiber plate in there They do have the vapor weave upper just like the the next percent It's not it's not just like the next percent, but similar material through that vapor weave upper for weight It's not too bad. So for men's size nine nine ounces or 255 grams not perfect I have a feeling that they will again streamline the upper in 2020 Just help just take some of that material off the upper because it is you know You can see the scrunching through the through the toe box here I think they could clean up the upper just a bit But overall very comfortable and the reason why one of the reasons why the shoe made the top three is that I think the The collar of the shoe is much more comfortable than the Nike turbo two We'll be talking about that shoe at another point in time But I just really enjoyed the collar very comfortable through this heel counter here in the back And I do like also the outsole Shape and pattern is mimicking the next percent So if you enjoy the ride of the next percent if you own the next percent for racing You probably there's a good chance You also own the zoom fly three and it's mimicking the next percent shape through that outsole So overall very pleased. I got some really solid training in the shoe in 2019 Leading into the Amsterdam Marathon just putting in the miles now brand-new. I believe it's still hovering around $160, but I've also seen it as cheap as a hundred and five dollars So go searching if you can look for your size if they have your size There are some deals to be had out there for the Nike zoom fly three and once 2020 hits on the calendar I think the price will continue to drop really nice So I'm very pleased just because it protected my legs My legs never really felt like they were crushed after a 20 mile long run in the shoe And I was able to take it up to higher speeds for a tempo day I never used the shoe for a threshold day, which for me is right around like 520 a mile But for tempo days perfect It just did great and yes Just getting a little extra pop out of that carbon fiber plate inside that midsole foam So there you go running shoe road running shoe number two to make the cut for 2019 is the Nike Zoom fly three and last but not least. I can't believe I'm going here. That's right Drumroll sketchers max road four is breaking into the top three for my road running shoes of 2019 now listen, it's not a perfect shoe. It's not perfect No running shoe is perfect, but it's moving Skechers is moving in the right direction. I really believe they are I think they're on to something with this hyperburst midsole again not perfect, but the The patents they have a patent on this hyperburst midsole So basically inside this midsole are teeny tiny little bubbles little teeny think of a Noodle that you have in a pool that you float on, you know those pool noodles you lay back and kick back and relax It feels like that that's what this material feels like just a little bit because there's little teeny tiny air pockets air bubbles inside Which again just helps absorb the pounding on the pavement and the concrete and that is exactly how I use this shoe Getting ready for Amsterdam and then even after Amsterdam getting ready for New York and now I'm putting still Putting quite a few miles into the shoe Getting ready for the Houston marathons and for that stack height. We're looking at 28 in the heel 22 in the forefoot for that six drop And what's amazing 8.4 ounces men size 9? Whoa, there it is on in grams on your screen That is very very lightweight for a shoe that has that much midsole So that is where I believe this shoe is winning in 2019 and I suspect it's only go I don't know why I set that down. I need it still I that I suspect they are gonna continue to innovate this upper, so Really comfortable upper now. How will I use the Skechers max road for in 2020 long runs and middle-distance runs? So anything from 15 to 22 miles not perfect absolutely perfect and with that weight 8.4 ounces it just you get done with your run and you just don't quite feel as tired So that's why another reason I decided to put the Skechers max road for in my top three road running shoes of 2019 one more concern. I almost forgot. I think they need to Look a little more closely at the outsole After about 120 miles. I am seeing some pretty good wear and tear on the outsole So I think you know they're gonna have to figure out something else there on the outsole just to give it a little more life Expectancy but overall, I'm very pleased and the price $130 not not perfect, but pretty good if it was 120 that would be a barn burner of a deal But 130 we will take it for the Skechers max road for so there you have it one more time the Asics glide ride the Nike zoom fly 3 and the Skechers max road for or my road running shoes of 2019 my favorites, but listen, I could have so honorable mentions the hoka rincon rincon rincon The hoka carbon X which is right here. I actually I was I all it was so close the carbon X almost made the cut The reason it did not real quick I'll just mention is remember the heel counter caused my Achilles tendons to bleed both of them way back in the Day and even though it's got some great stack height. It's got the car the carbon fiber plate through the midsole It still felt just a little stiff So I ended up having to put some spencoe into the shoe to help Alleviate some of the pounding so anyway because of that I decided that the carbon X just didn't quite make the grade for 2019 Question of the day. What are your top three or one? That's fine, too Your top three road running shoes of 2019. Let us know I cannot wait to read your comments Like and listen again. I was unable to run in the hoka Clifton 6 the soccany Liberty ISO 2 The soccany canvara is it 17? Oh my goodness I don't know it's there's so many shoes out there that I want to run in and I just run out of time and The legs can only take so many miles. You know what I mean so anyway, we'll keep trying shoes moving forward for all of you in 2020 and That's it. I can't believe it. What a year for road running shoes I'm excited to see how all of these companies continue to innovate push the envelope Make better products for us to use in the new year. There you have it everyone. Thanks for being here. Thanks for watching I appreciate it. I appreciate it. I appreciate it. All right throwing it back everyone to the running shoe Full review playlist on the right and on the left. We'll throw it back to the And well, you know what? We'll throw it back to the Nike Zoo fly 3 full review on the left All right. See beauty work hard and love each other. See you tomorrow, everybody


أردوا بمفارات النارين ي are some animals that are extinct there are groups advocacy groups that fight for animals that are going extinct but not Muslims Muslims remain quiet while our Qur'an, our Hadith, our Ahl-Bait they fought for animal rights لكثير قرآن وما من دابة فالأرضي there is not an animal on earth ولا طائر يطير بجناحي و ليس مجرد شراء يتعلم بها. و يتعلم بها. إلا أمام أمثالك. هم أمام الأمثال. كما أننا أمام الأمثال. كما أننا أمام الأمثال. هم أمام الأمثال. ما فرطنا في الكتاب من شيء. ثم إلى ربهم يحشرون. أمام الأمثال. سيكون مصر. يجب أن يأتي. أن يفعل ماذا؟ أن أمام سيأتي. headache belere� This individual hurt me. This individual abused me. This individual did not give me my rights. This individual did not feed me. You know that there is a scholar who passed away in his youth. Maybe some of you know him. Maybe some of you might have even met him. I don't know. They say that in his house they lived in Qom. ونقوم بأسرار ، هل تقدرون أطلق الهاتف؟ لماذا سنقوم بأسرار؟ ما سنقوم بأسرار؟ إسلام فارزة فارزة على هذا فقعها ، إذا كانت لديك موال بحالة فقط تجربة أو تجربة ما يجب أن تجربة؟ ونذهب مخلق أو تشكي الماء ونشأل تيامموم. كل مجانين يشأل تيامموم. لا تحتاج لنشأل ماء ونشأل. some say no not just you your animal if you have a horse your water is enough only for your horse to drink or you perform a vote which one is more important so scholars say feed your animal and you go do تيامموم. don't do it with them. save your animal let your animal drink water. you go and do it with them. you go and do تيامموم because although it has a replacement there is تيامموم but an animal cannot be replaced. this is a life that you will be taken away also the law would tell us the rights of animals I mentioned this a couple of nights ago when we talked about superstition animals have rights one you feed it whenever you stop two you give it water whenever you see water السلام عليك يا أبا عبد الله Islam teaches us to feed animals let alone human beings Islam teaches us to quench the thirst of animals let alone human beings don't sit on its face don't hit it on its face don't stand on its back don't put weight on it more than it can handle and don't let it walk more than it can handle these are Islamic traditions these are animal rights and Islam another حديث بارسول الله that says do not harm animals Allah will punish those that harm animals and we should forgive disobedient animals if you have a disobedient pet a disobedient animal forgive them forgive that animal and there is a reward subhan Allah there is a reward for those that forgive a disobedient pet and a disobedient animal where do you find this other than in Islam رسول الله for bad animal fights here in the west right the world's leading civilization you find cock fights bull fights all kinds of fights they bet on animals fighting animals killing each other السلام came and said no this is haram there's no such thing as bull fights or cock fights or animal fights just so that you sit and you enjoy animals fighting no this is haram there's no animal fights in Islam there's no bidding on animal fights this is wrong this is immoral رسول الله says that on the day of judgment a small bird if you killed a small bird for fun for leisure for entertainment not because you wanted to eat it that small bird will come on the day of judgment and will complain to Allah that this person killed me just for the sake of fun you wanted to have a good time this small bird will complain on the day of judgment


Hello everybody and welcome to our session about cluster management with the open source tool Punk for KDesk. My name is Benedikt Geltisberger and I'm going to introduce you today into Punk. So let's start. We move over here. So I'm the co-CTO at Mojinias and I work with Kubernetes for now since 2018, so a couple of years and I'm focusing on the API of Kubernetes and also on just Kubernetes usage as a DevOps engineer. I'm also a full-stake developer and my go-to language is Go and I have a background in iOS development but this has been a long time ago. In my free time I love building custom Linux machines and gaming rigs. Okay, so let's start. So what is Punk for KDesk? Punk for KDesk is a lightweight Kubernetes manager with built-in team collaboration and this is the main point because there are a lot of tools for Kubernetes management like K9S and Kubernetes Lens and they are awesome. Really we are using them all day long but we were missing an essential part when it comes to working with a lot of Kubernetes clusters from different vendors or different hyperscalers, it's a huge problem to share access. So for example you have a problem with a Kubernetes cluster and you simply want a colleague to look at the problem and you have to share somehow the Kube config. You have to work with the same IAM authentication mechanism if you go to AWS or have the same access using Google Cloud GCP and so it's a lot of work. If you simply want your colleague to just jump in and help you with your problem or just to look up logs or access a pod, whatever you name it and then you have to share the config and sharing configs is really a sensitive topic because they contain a lot of sensitive information and so we decided on creating a software where you can set up a lot of context and then share them with your colleagues, friends or whatever and without actually sharing the Kube config file. So if some of your colleagues might leave the company or if they simply don't have the need to access a cluster anymore, you can revoke access and the colleague will be instantly forbidden to access the resource and you don't have to revoke your cluster certificates or stuff like that. So it's an easy way to handle multiple clusters and multi-cloud. So yeah, we already have a web application, I discussed that earlier. We have a CLI which also supports all features of the web app and we also have a nice YAML editor and terminal access to pods. It's really nice with X-Term.js, it's really like a native experience when accessing. We also support RBAC and Ingress Controllers, multiple ones at the moment, using X-Ingress Controller and Traffic and we also have proxy support if you don't like to enable Ingress. Okay, so why would you use Punk? Yeah, you would use it to enable better collaboration with your colleagues in a multi-cloud environment. And our agenda for today is we are going to install Punk into a cluster. We are going to manage the workloads and resources, so I give you a quick demo on the features you already know when you know K9S or Cubelands. We are going to invite team members and manage the access roles and in the end we are going to remove Punk from the cluster and make everything clean again. So it's easy to just drop in Punk into your cluster and then remove it again without any hassle. Okay, so we also have a website for Punk. It's PunkDef for convenience reasons, so you can simply jump into our GitHub repository and look up the readme for installation. We also have a Slack, so if you want to participate and we are really looking forward for you guys to participate in this project, then jump into it, bring up new feature ideas or just start coding with us, we are really looking forward to that. And now I would say we just jump into the demo. Okay, so now we can close offers and start a new terminal. I'm going to make this window a little bit smaller and move it here and I'm going to start up a new terminal. So first of all I'm going to access this website and it is Punk.Def. So it's easy to remember, scroll down to installation. We support Mac OS and Linux using brew and for Windows we use Scoop, which is really convenient. So all the features I'm telling you about today also work with Windows and also we are supporting WSL too. Okay, so let's just copy it, go back to our terminal and type in the installation commands. So it will take a little bit until the installation is finished. Yeah, I already have the newest version of Punk, so we can proceed. So let's fire up Punk. If I start Punk, I get a small introduction, what Punk does, what the first commands can be and stuff like that. And so we are simply going to run Punk install. Oh, you also have obviously help here. You can see all possible commands here, sub commands. And we are going to do installation and when you don't select the parameter minus I, you simply have a local instance which is not accessible from the Internet. But if you set up your ingress, we will determine your ingress controller and set it up accordingly to point to for example here punk.localhost. So just let us start it. So first of all, we always tell you what context you are operating on. So you don't accidentally install it into the wrong context. So and now Punk is already installed. So what happened here? We installed a lot of different Kubernetes workloads into the cluster to make the operator run. And we created in first an initial administration user. It has a random email address for security reasons and a random password. So please save this data in a safe spot because we will never be able to see it again. Okay, so I am going to copy the email address here and then go to the browser. Type in punk.localhost enter. So now type in the username, copy the password, put it here and log into punk. So now we are logged into punk and we already get a lot of information here like basic information about the cluster statistics and some settings over here and also the context switcher. But we will come to that later. First of all, I give you a short overview about the features. So here's a list of all namespaces which is available and we have a huge load of different workloads which are possible to adjust here. So let's jump into the namespaces and select for example the punk namespace. We just created. So if you go to Yammer, you can also like set up a new label for example, like test label with test and save it. So now this workload is already updated. If you run into any errors, we will tell you and yeah, that's simply it. You can describe and crud stuff with Yammer. Okay, so more fancy now. Let's go to the pods and if you jump into let's say here, there's a traffic pod. You also have a log overview where you can see all logs describe and Yammer also and you have a terminal. For example here, if I type in hit the terminal, I have an external jazz terminal open to the pod and I can start working with it. For example, if I do something like this, I see what's installed here. That's great already, but I can also do fancy stuff like running top. That's also cool. Full screen mode works and I can do apk at htop, which is a little bit more fancy. If I run htop, you can see that also we are doing color support and resizing. If I do some resizing here, resizing works as well and that's it. So I can leave it again and you have a fully fledged terminal here to work with and it's really easy to connect like this and here you go. Okay, so let's jump to the next feature and from my point of view or not obviously it's the main point if I want to add different contexts. So I have my own context here. This is the context I installed when I ran the application in Docker desktop, which it's currently running in. So if I add a new context and I've prepared the context for that here. It's a K3S cluster we use for GPU operations. Like we have a cluster there with Nvidia support where our Lama 2 models are running right inside our office here and we use it for testing and playing around with AI stuff. And I want to use this to demonstrate how easy it is to set up a different cluster. So I select it here and I drag it over. So now it's uploaded and I can import it. If there are multiple contexts in your config file, we will also show them to you and you can select which ones you want to import. So now you see here there's a new context, the name was default, which is a little bit confusing. So let's do something like GPU cluster offers, save it, then do a refresh. And so we have a GPU cluster here. So what we can now do is we can simply switch between these contexts. And so for example, if I now hit the GPU cluster context and I go to the pods, I can see that one of our Lama instances is running here and all the Nvidia stuff for the GPU setup. And I can also do the same. I can simply jump into it and have some terminal fun. Okay, so and you can do it with hundreds of clusters and hundreds of contacts. And now you have a lot of contacts imported to your application. And now you want to share it with one of your coworkers coworkers coworkers. And so let's do that. So I jump back to the terminal. So we will have these features in a few days also in the web application, but we always start with programming the CLI features and then improving the web application. So let's start. So punk user list. So this is the currently added users. And now we are going to add a user. So this user will have the access role reader. So the user can access most of the resources which are not security relevant in a reading manner. For example, a reader cannot access secrets. If you want a secret access, you need to have access level user or admin. So let's set up the user. So we have a new user Matthew Jeff Davis. Nice randomization. So let's copy it. Oh, yeah. So and this user can now lock into punk and see the resources which are available to him or her. So let's jump into the. So you can already see here Matthew Jeff Davis is now one member of this team. Okay. So this is basically it. And we are going to rapidly improve punk for KHS.  And we are really looking forward for people who would like to participate in doing and working this project. So create new features, create code. Maybe just share ideas with us and let us build something really cool. Thanks a lot for your intention and for your time. And I wish you a great day. Bye bye.


Come back to the Sportsmax zone, Jamaican rally-cross driver Fraser McConnell continues to celebrate his second victory in the Extreme E Championship season. McConnell's latest win came in round eight, which was held in Sardinia, Italy, last weekend. McConnell and his Spanish teammate Cristina Gutierrez produced a scintillating performance to secure victory ahead of the Rosberg X racing team. McConnell and Gutierrez currently represent the X-44 Vida Carbon Racing team, which was formed by seven-time Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton. They currently sit on 87 points to occupy fifth place in the 10 team standings. Fraser now joins the studio to discuss among other things his latest victory in the Extreme E Championships. Welcome to our brand new studio, Fraser. How are you doing? Good. Good. Thank you for having me, Sam. I like what you guys have done. This is a new look, a good look for the zone. Yeah, and it fits you very well. Well, I want to start by saying congratulations on your second Extreme E win of the season. I was reading an article on Sportsmax.tv and they described the win as flawless. I have to agree. What say you? Well, you know, definitely a dominant win.  We took the start around the outside. You know, the outside of the first corner is always, you know, not necessarily the best. You can make it work, but you're not favored in the best position going into the first corner on the outside. But just trust the nine sinks, trust in the car, and I knew there was a little space behind one of the bushes that no one was really using all weekend. So, saved it to the final, took the lead in the start and just kept pulling away. You spoke about the start, right? And everybody felt as if you executed that start perfectly because they're looking on the outside. But in a lot of your interviews, you mentioned the use of tricks. You just spoke about the bushes, things that people don't notice. Talk to me about those tricks that you were talking about. Well, it's such a competitive feel that you need to find any little trick like, like, or, yeah, you know, it's all in the rules. It's all legal. But if you can find that you can do something or find something that makes you a little bit better than the rest of the competition, you're going to put yourself ahead. And, you know, in that same race was one of my, one of my childhood heroes Sebastian Lofi, nine-time World Rally Champion, nine consecutive championships. And growing up as a kid, I would have never taught in a million years that I would be standing above him on a podium. So that was a big thanks to X-44 viewer coming racing team and Louis Hamilton in particular, bossman for giving me that opportunity to jump in the car and even have the chance to go on the same start tonight as them. Yet alone be able to finish in front of them. So it's a big stage that we're on and I'm just grasping the opportunity with both hands and going for it. It must be an honor representing for Louis Hamilton because he's somebody we usually watch on television, you know, you read about him, you hear about him. But Fraser, you've been blessed to be able to represent him and his team. What I like about X-treme, though, is the fact that it's racing for a cause. So it represents highlighting global issues. How do you feel about that? Well, my favorite part is the gender equality. You know, it's using racing to promote all of these things. Every team consists of one male, one female. Yes.  They're super fast. They don't mess around, you know. They don't care if they're racing. They're going to, if they can't get in that inside line and push off, they're going to do that. And, you know, thankfully, I have a great teammate with me, Christina Gutierrez. She's the current champion. She won last year with Sebastian Loeb, actually. He was, that's who I replaced. But yeah, it really brings a huge team dynamic to the racing, to the race that you don't normally get. It normally is just one driver, one start.  But now we have a male driver doing two laps.  The mechanics are involved with what they call the switch zone. Where did they actually do the changing of the drivers? Well, 45 seconds from when we come into the pit to jump out, make the other driver jump in, buckle up safely, net everything, and then go back on the road. So, you know, mechanics are a part of that. And it really feels like a huge team, team vibe in during the race, which is incredible. You mentioned the switch and you're explaining it to me. And I can just picture everything happening. Do you think that switch moment is a make or break in any of the races? Because so many things could happen in that 45 seconds, Fraser. Yeah, so you're not allowed to go before 45 seconds. So it's more so a place where you can lose than gain. Everyone practices to get it right on the dot of 45. And yeah, so if you rush and make a mistake, you're more so going to lose time. You can never go faster than 45. So just making sure it's perfect, mistake-free. And making sure that they're safe before they go again. Yeah, one of the things in my previous interviews with you, you've always stressed, is your team that ensures that the car is prepared and that you are ready to, of course, give your best. Tell us a bit about that again. No, always. You have to take one race at a time. And, you know, you never know when your next race is going to be at this, at such a high stage. So it's been my dream as a child to race professionally. And, you know, now I'm being able to do that. So every practice session, every, you know, walk to the track, every time I put on my suit, I really just embrace that moment. And when I'm not at the race track, I'm trying everything I can do to better my craft as a driver, improve every single time I go out on track, never make the same mistake twice. And just evolve as, you know, you learn from mistakes, you get better. And make use of your talent and go for it. And prepping the car for this event, any things that happened that stood out for you behind the scenes, because I know sometimes we see you all winning. And there are so many things that happen behind the scenes, hurdles that we're not aware of with this particular event. Anything? Nothing that stands out really, you know. It's a spec series that everyone is racing in the exact same car. The only difference is the stickers. OK. And the cars all get transported around the world by the series ship. It's called Santelena. So there's no time for the teams to really work on the car in between races, kind of get to the race, prep it for three days, race it and then put it on the boat. And it drives around to the next part of the world. So, you know, we just always stayed on our game. We've been very good all year. The team has put everything into it and so have the drivers. And sometimes just bad luck comes you in. You have to just take it on the chin. I even said to my team boss on Saturday, we had another day and the car broke. Someone hit into us and broke the regular.  We must be doing something wrong, because we can't just keep getting bad luck like this. She said, no, for us, don't change anything. You've been doing great every single race. You're super fast. You're making smart decisions in the car. Your race graph is good. You're such a good team morale bringing up the spirit. So just don't change anything. So listen to her and the next day we went out on the one. So it's very high stakes, so difficult to do well. And yeah, when everything comes together, you just have to give thanks and keep going. Yeah, it looks like pure perfection. Your next extreme event is in Chile in December. But before we talk about that, Friso, what's coming up before that for you? So before that is rounds four and five of Nitro Cross, rebranded from last year's Nitro Rally Cross, now owned by Dana White and the Fruture Brothers who they've bought, they're who brought UFC to where it is now. They see a lot of those elements in Nitro Cross now. So they think it's going to be a super dominating TV sport that people are going to be really, really willing to watch. So encouraging that they've come on board. And yeah. So you have that in November? That's coming November 10, 11. All right, so we can catch you on that. And then talk to me about what do you have to do now to be prepared for Chile in December? Is it a lot of tweaks that you have to make, or is it that after November you just get ready for that? Well, you always need to stay sharp physically and mentally. So always in the gym making sure our bodies do go through a lot of abuse during those races in the car. Big bumps, big jumps, people crashing into you. So you need to have a strong core. Your spine gets a lot of that impact. So you need to be fit inside the car and fit to the point where you don't get tired in the car. I'm not going to say racing is as difficult or exhausting as track or football or another sport. But you do get tired when you're driving. The driving is so intense. And when you get tired, you lose the mental sharpness. So that's what you don't want to happen in a car. When you're really super fast in the corners, taking big risks, you need to be able to stay sharp mentally. And fitness is a key part of that. Yeah, Frieza, you've been dominating in your different competitions that you've taken part in. I remember attending your family's event when you came back, that homecoming event, the celebration. What do you think keeps you so focused? Just thinking back to how much I've wanted to do this for such a long time. Growing up in Bogwok, watching rally Jamaica go past, the property always looking. And you smell the racing fumes. And you look at the cars. Wow, this is so wicked.  And having that competitive spirit, having all our siblings, they build that competitive spirit into yourself. Always looking for another challenge, something bigger. And now we're at the top. And just trying to be as, you know, leave a legacy. Yeah, and you're young. And you have a lot of time in front of you. What type of legacy would you like to leave? One that I definitely want to be able to get across is opening a door or creating a path for other Jamaicans or Caribbean to go into a motorsport career, whether it be a driver or a mechanic engineer. There's no one from Jamaica or the Caribbean that's gone to the lengths I have with motorsport. So when we first started, they would look at the Jamaica flag on the entry license and say, you know what, what Jamaica doing? Not again. Now they know we will mean business. So it's hopefully that that will last and, you know, I'll be able to create a path for people that want to do the same. Yeah, especially the youngsters looking on. And they won't have to go through what you went through, thinking that we don't belong here. They now think that they belong. Well, Fraser, as usual, it's a pleasure when you join us on the Sports Mac soon. We want to congratulate you again.  We'll chat again soon. I look forward to it. Thank you for having me. Which means you have to keep winning. Because you only come out when you win. Deal. All right. To make a rally-cross drive for Fraser McConnell, of course, visiting us here in the Sports Mac Studio, we'll take a quick break and when we come back, we have a lot more on the channel just for you.


So earning that gold, earning that money, earning that gallium within Hogwarts Legacy is an absolute must. Well today guys, I've been you yet another amazing method in how you can do this, more or less AFK. Now guys, if you do enjoy this video, leaving a like really helps out and if you like what you see and want to see more Hogwarts Legacy on a daily basis, be sure to subscribe. Okay, so that money in this game is an absolute must, it's not to which way is about it, but earning it can be a bit of a pain in the rear end. You know, you know my room requirements looks amazing people. Yes, it does But yes, if you want to upgrade all this, by the things you need for your room requirement, money is an absolute must. And today guys, I'm going to showcase to you an easy AFK method in doing this where you'll earn roughly about 4,000 per hour. So yes, let's get into it guys. Now, you need to level up your room of requirements. This is more or less for not brand new players, players who have played the game for quite a bit, probably halfway through or a bit past that, and I've got the four of the variants.  So if you've got the four of the variants open guys, you get the last one when you unlock the Phoenix for Deak.  Get that done. You then start your quest lines for Deak. The first one, and the main one here, is the AlfD knapsack on the loom. We first get your knapsack, but if you just progress the game, he'll eventually offer you more quests.  So yeah. So what we're gonna do here guys, is we're actually gonna breed. Now you can breed animals, if you've got a male and female, and you can do this every half an hour. Now with each of the variant, with four of the variants on offer in the game, you can have four breeding pens. So that's 16 in total. Now you can breed, like I said, you can breed four parents, sets of parents, and get a baby. So that's four babies every half an hour. And that's just one of the variant times that by four guys, you get 16 babies every half an hour. That equals out to be 1,920 gold every half an hour. And all you've literally got to do guys is set it up, set up your other variants. So you've got four of the breeding pens. You buy the breeding pens from by the way, if you haven't got this unlocked already. Let's go to Hogsmeade. Let's go, let's go. And you come down to this dude right here at the toms and scrolls. This guy sells so much shiz, but you also saw the breeding pen. But you'll learn about this anyway. You'll have this done if you complete a Dick's Quest line. Yeah, the breeding pens, simply guys, just breed, breed a set. And each one, breed a set in each one, people. And you can do this, it doesn't matter. You can have puffskins. It doesn't matter what it is, and you know there's easy puffskine farms in the game. Yep, here we go guys, just simple as this. I need to actually manage my bees and put one into my inventory because I've got two of these little bad boys here, look. So I'll take you with me because you're gonna get sold mate. Sorry about that. Because I'm breeding you again. There we go. Okay, so that's just one of the variants. So in 30 minutes from this one, I'll come back and I'll pick up the four babies and then we're gonna sell them. But like I said, you can do this in every of the variants you have open. You can be limited to one. You can have two, you can have three, or you can have four. But yep, as you can see here, my pens are all set up. I can breed away guys. And it really is that simple. Now when you have the babies, like I said, come back in half an hour. Actually I haven't got enough things in there. You know what I'm trying to get? A female unicorn. I mean a male unicorn. I keep getting females. I mean I keep, yeah, I keep getting females. Have a look at this. Have a look at this people. Do you know what I mean? I need myself a male. I need myself a male. But yeah, either way guys, this is what you gotta do. If you want an AFK farm, quite easy, quite simple. Again, set up your variants with those four breeding pens in each one. Put any animals in it. It doesn't matter what they are. You can go out to the many, many puff skiing farms in a game, which are super, super easy to get. Just get four sets of parents for each of them you have. And then guys just breed away. And it's easy. It's easy basically four grand every hour for you doing. And if you want to do other things as well, if you want to just get on with your quest, if you want to, I don't know, do all the things, do the challenges around the map. You can use this easy method guys. And then when you're done, you simply take your, your babies. Sounds mean selling babies, people. You take them up to Hogsmeade here and go to the Brudenpeck vendor. And then simply sell the babies away, guys. We'll do it. It's going to break my heart, man. But yeah, you can do this easy, easy money, easy money. I mean, we know there's other ways of farming money in the game, which are way, way quicker than this. There's not too much ways about this. It's nowhere near the fastest. But again, you don't have to do nothing. You can just press a button, press a couple of buttons and put your controller down or do other things. What I do wish is you got more money, more gold for the Shinies. We just, you know, it's just weird. You should get more for the Shinies, but you don't. I just don't get it, guys. I really don't get it. But yeah, all of these can be sold. I don't really need any of them. But yes, guys, this is what you got to do. Read those babies, get rid of them, and you are good to go, guys. Easy AFK farm. Hey, you people out there, that got the things to do.  I do feel like quite you're seeing one. I see more. Be sure to subscribe. And hopefully, guys, I will see you on that next.


I'm here with Ms. Ritos from PolyIC GMBH. Can you tell us a little bit about PolyIC? Hi, my name is Katrin and I'm working for PolyIC as a marketing communications manager. PolyIC is a company that produces content and conductive films like this. You can use those films for any kind of touch application. And where do you see printed electronics in the technology now as opposed to say five years ago? Well I think now it's in the state of development still a lot. Obviously we can tell that we are planning to go to the market within the next couple of years.  And how have you found printed electronics USA 2014 this year? Well it's been a great pair and I was impressed how much it was growing over the last couple of years. So we are very happy with the show. So what are we looking at here? This is an example for a touch screen actually. This can be used for displays and of course for normal it's a lot larger. So displays? This is a display which is also decorated with some IMD film from our parent company Kurt.