Alan. Andrew is one of Australia's most highly respected investigative journalists. He's worked on the flagship current affairs programs with both the public broadcasters, he's held senior news limited roles throughout his career, and he first interviewed Julian Assange for Foreign Correspondent in 2010, for which the program won the New York Festival Gold Medal. He's just updated his 2011 book about Julian Assange, The Most Dangerous Bound in the World, which we are going to be hearing more about today and we're really, really excited about that. And tonight Andrew is going to be in conversation with Mary Costa-Kitties. Mary presented SBS World News Nightly for almost two decades and in 2019 she visited Julian Assange in Bellwarsh Prison. Please join me in welcoming Andrew Fowler and Mary Costa-Kitties. Thank you James. Well, would you be founder and publisher Julian Assange has been in Bellwarsh maximum security prison since April last year. He faces extradition to the United States, where he'd be prosecuted under the Espionage Act, charges attracting 175 years in prison. Julian Assange and Huckabeeks have received scores of awards for journalism and human rights, and including the coveted Australian war plea for most outstanding contribution to journalism. And we're going to be talking about the most dangerous man in the world with Andrew Fowler. Andrew, the title is an acknowledgement of Julian's, among other things, of his impact. How would you describe that impact? Now Mary, I think it's difficult to underestimate the impact that Wikileaks had when it really burst on the public scene in 2010. Who can forget being in the helicopter gunship hovering over that bag there square and seeing the people below and hearing the pilots talking as though it was like a game show of a low-money talking about why did people up and then killing them, including two writers and journalists. Now that hit home very hard around the warlock. A couple of that you had to release later on in the same year, and that was the correct murder video, of course. You had later on in the year the release of the Afghan warlocks, the Iraq warlocks and cable gate. And it just ripped off the scab of what the Americans and the Allies were doing in the Middle East. The torturing, killing, the body counts of people who died in Iraq. The UK and the US said that they weren't counting the dead civilians. They were. Wikileaks revealed that 610,000 people died as a result of a non-combatance in Iraq alone. So that's part of the punch-through that Wikileaks brought to us all those years ago, it's a decade ago. And I think that when you look today in the back and say what was the impact, I think that when the Guardian ran those stories page after page after page of the trustees that Wikileaks cables were exposing, as did the mall, the newspapers and the people. Journalists looked at those stories and saw them and saw the truth that had been hidden from us as journalists, maybe because we hadn't pushed back hard enough, of course, because governments have been very good at covering their tracks. But more importantly, it gave us a contentary view of the world. We didn't have to wait for 30 years to find out the truth of what our foreign policy problems had been up to. We didn't have to put up with the censorship. It was there, more data. You make up your mind, and particularly for the readers and the viewers, to make up their mind about what they thought. Because they've filled it in the way. So I want to sit in the way of this information. You could read the newspaper story, you could read the document, and you, the reader, could make up your mind. It was revolutionary. One of the signs called it, scientific journalism. They will be called scientific journalists, but really it's just journalism, that the readers should be given access to as much people as many people as possible. And Wikileaks made that possible, and that is the big pipes through moments, as far as I understand. And of course, one of that, I think, was the internet, and his own commitment to social justice, and his searing intelligence, really. You know, his searing intelligence got him into a lot of trouble, as we appreciate, as people didn't appreciate Julian's searing intelligence. And some people at the Guardian weren't very happy with his searing intelligence, but his commitment to human rights and to disclosing unpalatable public trueness were what drove him. And I think that we as journalists should be more supportive of him than we are now, because of body talkers. And one of the reasons he is seen as such a danger, of course, by some powerful governments, is because of the capacity for endless revelations. It wasn't like the Pentagon piglets where you have published, you reveal this, you know, this total of things that have been happening during the Vietnam War that were concealed from us, the fact that we knew the war was going to be lost. This was, really, having this capacity to upload anonymously, meant that sources would be encouraged. And this might keep happening. The major reason why the United States is persecuting during the scientists for that very reason, they don't want anybody to follow in these footsteps. They try not just to silence him, but to silence the idea. And we're also a couple of them, that's Australia as well, and the other so-called five-wise countries, clamping down on journalists because of that very opportunity. And I think the idea of eternally revealing information in a contemporary time is extremely dangerous for governments. They don't want people to know what's going on continuously. Also, that's not guaranteed to protect sources with an anonymiser. And so far, nobody has been exposed by wavelengths as a result of the information they've had. You say in the book, in fact, that this is not true, that the constant assertion that these publications have hurt people, that people have died. In fact, you said WikiLeaks was, on occasion, more careful than the mainstream media. Let me give you an example of that. I mean, let's go back to collateral murder, which is the gunship offering home to the Baghdad Street. I would suggest that any journalists around the world, there would be few of them who wouldn't, if they're TV reporters, grab that video and put it to air pretty much as you got it, once you established it was accurate. What WikiLeaks did was to actually send somebody, Kristin Harathasar, who's now WikiLeaks editor, to Baghdad to check out the veracity of that information. Now, I think that that's a commitment to public service journalism, the like of which you probably wouldn't see in today's book, mate. That's a very good point, because Julian, in fact, has been discredited because of this myth that he is not a journalist. Numerous myths, in fact, that have been attacks on his reputation both professionally and personally. Another criticism was that he was holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy to avoid Swedish justice, to avoid the sex charges. Well, sure. I mean, that's the beginning of the Smyr campaign, or maybe it's maybe 15 percent into the Smyr campaign. I mean, Assange told me personally that he believed the Americans would try to make for writing, and he was keen to stay out the United States for as long as possible. I mean, I know that in 2010 there was a grand jury sitting, investigating, drawing up charges to bring him to America. So they were the charges because there never were any Swedish charges? No, those were the real charges. Why would they never any Swedish charges? Well, they were real. The real intent was to just get him in some way and to grab him. Well, the charges were never revealed because the evidence was so thin, in my opinion. It's my understanding of the Swedish law and the exhibition law that if you want to extradite somebody, you must charge them once they get to the country. The problem is that Assange wanted that. Assange was being kept in the dark about the charges because they hadn't gone through the process of gathering the evidence. And they didn't come from London, who honestly tended to actually investigate, too. Once they reached the stage of forming the charges, then they would have to be revealed just how thin the evidence was against him. That's why I called for him to come to the standstill. And during that time, those eight years in the embassy, and since then, he's been the subject of a relentless campaign. Nils Melzer, the UN rapporteur on torture, has been a tremendous advocate for Julian's predicament. He has indeed. Nils Melzer is one of the great investigators of torture. He's been investigating torture for 20 years around the world. And Melzer, when he saw Assange who went into the embassy and saw him, he said he was really psychologically in torture. And he said also, I think quite crucially, that he'd never seen so many powerful countries gang up on one individual and try to destroy them. That's my extraordinary. But the rapporteur on torture would say that about the United States, Australia, UK, Canada, and New Zealand, and to say that they would gang up to put him away. And he thought that not only Assange being tortured, he should be released and compensated. And what happened, of course, is that the British government said, this is wrong. We don't accept that. We appeal. So they appeal. And the United Nations investigated and found that Nils Melzer's findings were absolutely false and absolutely false. And another criticism is that he's been a Russian tool and that he is responsible for the election of Donald Trump. You say in the book that the revelation that Bernie Sanders was cheated out of the Democrat nomination should have further elevated views to the pantheon of Great Germany. Somebody who's listening hasn't muted their mics. Can I just ask you, you're sitting at home or in this room, you haven't muted your mic. Please do so. Yeah, so they were saying that Nils is a journalist in Australia as well. They were saying we're quite angry because they supported Hillary Clinton and they thought Trump would be a disaster. Personally, I thought Trump would be a disaster as well. But had I been given those documents, had any journalist been given those documents, which show that inside of the Democratic Party, someone was being stitched up and everyone was being held back up for the presidency, I would have thought, I would publish the documents. What journalist in their right mind wouldn't do that? And yes, such is the hatred of Trump, it blinds journalists to what their duty is, which is to reveal without your favor, the truth that the government's got the right to know. And quite frankly, I think that beating it out there, Hillary Clinton would have lost the election. I think the point is so divided, the way they treated Sanders was so appalling and people knew it anyway outside. This was just confirmation. But it's another experience too. You make it very clear in the book that you thought it was the principal thing to do. Let's move on from the myths about you and these assertions to some of the new material in the book that you've just updated. Tell us what you found out about the deal that Waldman tried to broker and the context of it and what happened. Well, Adam Waldman, who's a lovely interesting character, has been described as being like the poorest government in the brain. He actually turns up at the most unexpected times and he came up to the ever-seeing mech of the McEwen's people and broke a meeting with a person from the Department of Justice, David Kaufman, who was head of counterintelligence. And they were having this backwards and forwards discussion about how to deal with the issue of Julian's confinement. And the Americans, that's the Department of Justice, were actually saying, well, what would Julian do? How would he help? And the discussion, as far as I understand it, was something like this that Kaufman said, well, what would you offer? And they said, well, Julian would actually be able to say who was not the leader. In other words, he probably explained what he said before, which is it wasn't the Russian state and it wasn't the state actor. Well, he may or may have even given some evidence. And some evidence, exactly. But pointing away from not pointing to sources, not revealing sources. And what happened subsequently to that is the discussion that moved on to, well, what do you want? Well, would Julian be given free passage from the embassy? Will he go to America or not? That's the question. I mean, he probably thought it probably wasn't a good idea that they were talking about those kind of things.  And interestingly enough, the FBI director, Comey, when he learned of these negotiations, these discussions said they should stop. This was relayed to Kaufman. That's written through Kaufman, took to Kaufman and they decided, we're not going to stop. We're going to go on and they carried on. Because what was at stake here, as far as the Americans were concerned, was the release of documents called Vault 7. And they were the inside workings of the CIA. They fell into two tronches. And the first lot, when they were released, caused not much of a flatter, but they were very concerned about the second lot. And so Julian has these documents that are extremely powerful and revelatory. And at that very moment, in the weeks leading up to the release of them, there was a change of leadership in Ecuador. And the person who the party was elected was related, that it helped him get asylum, that it changed the president. The president, the new president, was very close to the Americans. The Americans were leaning on him. Pence had been there, the vice president, and the IMF had done a deal with the Americans with the military. And Julian could feel the net closing. And he, as far as I understand, who he's told me before, he believes he's releasing for the maximum powerful impact. That's what he goes, the people who blow the whistle and give him documents. And so he thought, I would say, the net's closing, I've got to get this stuff out. And he did. And when he launched the fourth seven, it did go like an exorcism. This all straight through the middle of the CIA, because it revealed, really crucially, if you want to pick it, what it revealed was that the United States had spied on China. The CIA had been penetrating Chinese industrial complexes, factories, and doing, doing to the Chinese, what the Americans say the Chinese do to them. So that was a crucial point. Compiler went completely ballistic with the CIA director, and accused Wikileaks of being hostile intelligence agency. In fact, you also detail in the book the spying on Julian Assange and his lawyers in the embassy by the very party that's prosecuting him. So just take us through how this came to pass and the role of the standard dear banks. Well, what's interesting is following that, you can imagine that things got a little tighter in the embassy. And the organization confused the global, under the cover global, the base in Spain had a contract to basically run CCT cameras, I would like to see Europe help any large installations in Sydney for security purposes, stop breakings, things like that. Well, suddenly in about 2015, they started installing cameras that have been called sale inside the embassy. So one of the questions. And also microphones. And they recorded conversations between Assange and his lawyers in great detail, and funneled them back to Madrid. And then the special splitting of the computer server, they gave one law to the Americans. And the other law went to the government. And so the spent the winds of the Americans gave basically a 24 a run down of everything that happened inside the embassy. Now, who the Americans were is not it's not clear to be able to say exactly who they were. But by piecing together the information, because I've done going through policy many pages of transcripts, like every member, you can see that the information made this way all the way to the State Department. And how do we know that? Because when you mentioned before journalists called Cassandra Fairbanks, she was interesting character, she'd actually been a Bernie Sanders supporter. And then when Bernie had been so badly treated, she jumped across to Trump. And of course, the Trump can welcome this, you know, this refugee from the next with open arms. So she had great contacts with the Trump campaign, including a guy called Arthur Shorts, who's rather, I think it'd be kind of say, I could rather embrace it with a media as a hate kicker. And so she got a very well with Arthur. And Arthur talked to her. So when Arthur told her things, she then told Julian, because she was a great supporter of Julian, so much. And when Arthur learned that she'd been talking to Julian, he was less than happy and told his son, extremely unhappy, you told him all these things, I can't talk to him or I can't trust you. The question is, how did Arthur know that she'd been talking to Julian? He said, by the way, there's a big investigation State Department. Some people, my best friends, run from Whitestone. How did he know that? How did he know that she'd been talking to a scholar? And what she said, to look at and close, it's the State Department had access to the information. And what's significant about that is that if the State Department has got access to it, and in any way alert prosecution to that information, then the argument could be had that the whole case falls in that heap, because it's illegal in the United States, I understand, certainly in Europe to spy on clients and their lawyers. There's a really important point about the prevalence of that information and who had access to it. Well, a lot to go to hinge on British justice. And so far, it hasn't been promising. We saw during the hearing earlier this year that Julian was barely able to communicate with his lawyers. And indeed, all along, he hasn't been able to prepare out for this case because of hand access to lawyers, even to documents he needs to read his defense. Yeah, I think the problem with the case, I mean, many, many different cases, depending on what you say, as long as you're not being able to talk to his lawyers, not being able to sit in the court world, being held in the cage like some sort of community billmarked prison, this is the UK's Autonomous Bay. We're locking people up there in the early 2000s. He has a problem with dealing with the US, so the UK justice, as I said for you, the UK justice system, because the UK justice system is not behaving justly. How can the judge who presides over the entirety of this case, how can she preside over it? That's not the person in the hearing, but the person who's actually a little bit lady of the flock. She is related to a member of the House of Laws and Husbands. He sat on the Security Intelligence Committee of the UK. He had a business relationship with the former head of MI6. And according to the rules and regulations that govern which cases you cannot sit on, she's a complete brink to that. She should have nothing to do with this case. Yes, she's compromised. And also the Office of the Prosecution in the UK compromised themselves. And we know this because of the FRI documents that Stefani Marvitsi obtained. Well, they do indeed. You're referring to the Swedish case? Yes. Well, it's a lot of curious matter, isn't it, when the Swedes are pretty much losing interest in the case, mainly because of the internal criticism that the prosecuting authority in the Swedes is coming under. And according to the FRI documents discovered after great work by Stefani Marvitsi, who was an Italian journalist, that in those documents, she discovered one piece that hadn't been blacked out. And it was simply said it was a message from the British, from the German posthumous service to the Swedes, saying, don't get cold feet. Don't you dare get cold feet, I believe. Thank you correctly.  What is happening here is that the British are only too keen to get assigned into Swedish custody. Well, that there was pressure from the UK on the Swedes. Yes. Just moving on, because we've got a lot of material to get through, there's new indictment now, but no new charges. No. And it wasn't served to the court, it wasn't served to the defence, it was served by the media. What do you make of this? Well, it seems to me that the problem here is that the Americans realise that they're charged in which they accuse Assange of helping Chelsea Manning get access to a computer system that she had access to, legally anyway, was so thin and so vulnerable because there was no offence really committed there. There's no offence of encouraging Chelsea Manning to break in and do something she wasn't entitled to. It was to help her hide her identity. So that was the most important thing. I think that these charges now are stepping back from that and saying, well, if we don't get that one off the ground, then what we'll do is we'll say he stood in the hall and he asked questions of people and said, if you find information out about the Americans, what they're up to, they're over us on the British or the Australians or anybody else on the Russians, please get the information and give it to us on WikiLeaks. So that was what he was actually doing it. So they're accusing him now of conspiring and encouraging people to hack computers. It shows to me that this first charge that he was actually held on when they dragged him out of the embassy after, by the way, after he had exposed the spine, it was the 24 hours they dragged him out. So it's like to me that that's what that's about. It's a catch on. It's catching up with the failed first charge. It's so weak. And I think that that's a sign of just the weeks of the case. The problem is that just how low, just a little evidence is required to get him to the United States. You don't have to prove the case to get him there. You just have to show it was a case to answer. And that is a problem because if Julian Assange ends up in the United States, I think he will be in great trouble. And 175 years isn't what we're talking about. We've got people there that wanted to, if by the means of election, he called Assange a high-tech terrorist.  And the country, as you can see, is so divided that I don't think it would be possible to get a fair trial. That's more than it was in Virginia. Andrew, you and I and others can see that there's been a relentless unfolding of an injustice here. Yet our prime minister says Julian, you should face the music. And I would ask you, why do you think the Australian government is taking this decision? What should they be doing? Well, he's not alone, by the way, in saying that Julian Assange faced the music.  To the extent that they called the federal police, the federal police investigated and found that he's not broken the law. Now, the Attorney General at the time said, I'll take away his passport. And Kevin Rudd, Kevin Rudd said, well, you don't have a right to take away his passport. And by the way, if Assange needs some material of help from his prison cell, I'll send him a computer. And that's because, you know, this is Rudd actually supporting an open government or open government. And he actually lost quite a bit. The WikiLeaks reported a lot of stuff about what Kevin Rudd said about the Chinese, which was extremely embarrassing and unpopular. But having said that, he still stood by Assange. If you then roll on to later on, Bob Carr, who's now become someone who says, yeah, that's enough for Assange to be brought home, he would say that he thought that Assange had perceived more than enough consular assistance, more than enough consular assistance, more than usual. And then he said, no, I didn't actually say that. That was because I was getting sick and tired of Christine Assange. And I wanted to just basically, you know, pay her out a bit. I mean, what is this about as the foreign minister saying this about somebody just to settle an old score? Then we roll forward to the current incumbents. And we've got Scott Morrison saying he just faced the music. And they, the question is almost redundant. Most people know the answer. The reason it's like that is because Australia is so close to the United States that it's terrified, terrified of offending the great master. It is horrified. And so it will do anything not to offend them. And Assange is like, he's out there. There's no worry about it. It doesn't help the public to forget about him. If the public forgets about doing Assange, I think they'll live to regret forgetting about him, because I don't think that he will survive if he ends up in the United States. And that will be on the hands of the people, not just the public, but the politicians need to have to understand that the public does support Assange. So what Murray's kind of harm is to say that he's receiving consular assistance. He gets the sort of assistance that the one else gets in this situation. Yeah, consular assistance is really just, as you said before, it's like issuing your passport. It's helping you find your lost train ticket, get the stolen bags or whatever it is. This is not a cultural assistance matter. This is a political matter. The government needs to talk to the British, particularly rich, particularly Boris Johnson, who says the extradition relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom is very one-sided without going into details. They've got their own problem with other extraditions that they want to bring people back to America. They can't do it. So that's what you need to do. It's a political decision where this government says it's a political prosecution, and therefore we believe you should not send him to the United States. On the basis that it's a political extradition and under the terms of the treaty, I understand that you can actually make their argument to say as a political crime, you shouldn't be extradited. And we have Australia has intervened in the past. They've come to James Richardson, he digressed it, Michelle Corby, who talked about it in the book, saying if we think he was a drunk brother, we would have sent over a couple of QCs to help. Well, that's exactly what happened with Michelle Corby and John Allen did do that because they want her appeal. But the difference is that on one side, you've got Asia and our neighbors. And this is where we really punch down. This is where we flex our mighty muscle in Asia. We feel would involve them to stand up and speak truth to power. We can deal with that. Can we deal with the United States of America? Absolutely not. Absolutely. We just go to water. I mean, it is extraordinary to see a country so cranked up to another power. And I mean, I was I migrated to Australia many years ago, and I was told the great strength of Australian character, spirit, all those things. The United States, forget it. Forget it. We just give in whatever they want. Andrew, I think we've both been disappointed by the failure of journalists to see that Julian Assange has been in the mine. A failure to comprehend the implications and consequences of his persecution and his prosecution. We're seeing the disturbing rise of authoritarianism in Western liberal democracies, where governments are enforcing this new social contract, which they've snuck up on us. How is it affecting the role of journalists and more broadly our freedoms? Well, that's a very good question and quite a long way to answer. I'll just make a point that Daniel Ellsberg made about 2010, and he was talking to Julian about these issues of Assange believed that if you could expose the rottenness inside organizations, that they would collapse under the weight of their own criminality. There's a great believer in that. And what Daniel Ellsberg said is, on the contrary, what will happen is they will get tighter and tighter, worse and worse, harder and harder and more authoritarian. It'll be just the reverse. You need to fight against that and be weary of it. But what we've seen is just that, ever since the exposition of 2010, it's become more and more draconian, more and more authoritarian and harder and harder and harder for journalists to do their jobs. The government in this country has introduced, I mean, there was no protection for journalists. There's a protection implied in some of the charges that may have to pass through the Attorney General, and he may or may not decide to prosecute. There are certain sort of small things that you might be able to argue in court, but it's up to the court to decide whether or not you're protected. It's absolutely hopeless. There is no real defence. And when you see what happened to the ABC, where the Federal Police just went in the front door and started rifling through the files of the ABC, this is the ABC, this is the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. I mean, this is the Australian Institution and the Federal Police are going in and just looking through reporters' notes. I mean, this is extraordinary. This is absolutely extraordinary.  But this has been slowly eroding, slowly eroding. The journalists have been too willing to give up, too willing to give in. The ABC, for example, got their hands on simple filing cabinets for Asio documents. And Asio said, we want them back. What did the ABC do? They gave them back. I can barely believe I'm saying this to you. No journalist will hand back classified or confidential documents until they've been through them. And until they've worked out whether or not the public has a right to know information contained in their documents. So the slippery slope, the slide is coming all the time, ends up with the fence going in the front door and rifling through your files. So the resistance is not too late to resist. To resist this, but it's increasingly difficult. Andrew, I think we're going to take some questions from people who are watching now. Okay, lots of questions. Andrew, does the Democrat presidential win offer any chance of dealing with this prosecution being stopped? No, not at all. It's fine with the same thing. There is no difference. The only difference would have been Sanders, but he was marginalized and pushed out the door by the establishment of the derogatory party. I think, although, I'll tell you, I hope that Joe Biden wins. But as for Assange, I think there's no chance of any change. He's the guy called Assange or I take terrorists out there banging the drum. We can see more wars coming. I mean, I think one thing about, I'll be brief, about Trump is that he actually reigned in John Bolton. Pretty good going, I think. I mean, he took the bomb as a last resort, but he did at least stop him from thinking of the same acts he would carry out. I mean, it would be involved in all wars if Hillary Clinton was present and convinced of that. There's a question about discussing further the global precedent being set by prosecution. Prosecution, I think they mean Assange for press freedom, especially in the light of the threat to prosecute ABC journalist Dan Oakes for exposing war crimes in Afghanistan. Well, the prosecution set by the precedent set by prosecuting Julian Assange, if the US can prosecute someone for committing a so-called crime, not in the United States and can have them extradited, not a United States citizen, no crime committed by the US or have them extradited, prosecute them and put them in jail until they die, to death sentence, really. What's the significance of that precedent? I mean, couldn't they extradite the Guardian editor next year? It's a warning to every journalist. In fact, it absolutely is that if you report something that the United States of America, the science is not in their national interest, it's actually and maybe used information that they consider to be classified secret, they can extradite you, they will attempt to extradite you. And that has a chilling effect on journalists, so actually have that fear hanging over them. And that's the reason why Assange case is so important for journalists. If you don't get it, if you don't get it before, you must get it now. You're next, but of course, Russ Bridger is not being prosecuted. The raids in Australia happened straight after Julian was dragged out of the embassy. And David McFly tweeted the other day that he was aware that Australia consulted the United States before taking action against him and Dan Oates. That wouldn't surprise me because that's exactly the intervention of the intelligence means that if you're pulling the threads of the intelligence apart, you'll find that the threads of American intelligence involved in that story are certainly and consequently that is a risk.  So they basically have a copyright over this stuff a lot of it. I'm not sure the breakdown, but the majority of it, and the hardware particularly, is American.  I would encourage people not to take being noticed of this whatsoever, but to go and do their jobs. But we know that people higher up the command chain will be thinking seriously about bringing on another way to the ABC because there's a fear and it's designed to instill fear in everybody, censorship, to censor us, to stop us from knowing. I mean, for goodness sake, can you imagine what's going on right now that we don't know about when we knew about what was happening in 2000 and then in 2007, maybe three years ago. I mean, they don't want that that's the United States particularly, particularly the current administration, do not want to have their dirty or their washing in public. And there's another question here about the Labour Party. What's Abernazis Labour Party doing now? Do you think anything's going to change if Labour are in power after the next solution? Probably not. I wouldn't think so. Maybe Abernazis sticks very closely to the script on deterrence and security, even when it's completely vacuous, office, and so is my purpose. They just stick with it because you can't criticize the United States. It's impossible and it's such a bad way of thinking of not engaging. You just say nothing, you just fall along slavishly. So, you know, if we end up with American society, they're going to launch some kind of a cyber attack on Taiwan or on China, but we'll be part of it, because there's something meshed in it. There's something meshed in American foreign policy. Someone else said that they're interested in further discussion on the Australian government's response. We talk about the difference between the way the Australian government reacted to the detention of journalist Peter Grester in Egypt and the reaction to the Assange situation. Of course, they have an excuse, a facile excuse with Grester because it's Egypt and they can write Egypt off as, you know, a country where you have to protect your citizen against human rights abuses. On the other hand, it's the same thing again. It's the same thing. It's a country that's not that powerful, and so consequently, we can lean on it, and the Americans will probably help lead as well. But if Peter Grester had been picked up in the United States for doing good journalism, he would still be in the United States. He wouldn't be free. And I think Peter Grester needs to understand that the journalists stood up for him and they put themselves out to support bringing him back to Australia. And what Peter Grester did was to write a column saying that during Assange was not a journalist. Now, the importance of that is that without Assange being a journalist, the Americans were prosecuting successfully under the Espionage Act. The thing that stands between Assange and prison in America is his journalism. He has first amendment protection. It's not guaranteed, but it's as good as you're going to get. Without it being a journalist, there is not much protection left. And I think that journalists need to think very clearly before they say that Assange is not a journalist because it's a death sentence, potentially. That's a very, very good point, Andrew. And also, it's about the changing role of journalism and who is a journalist particularly today? Sure, who is a journalist. I mean, many years ago, it was, if you weren't half your money as a journalist or as a writer, you could be a journalist. But now people are journalists who publish material. So there are many more journalists in the world before. Are they publishing material for public interest? Yes, they're journalists. If they gather information to give it to a foreign power, then you can prosecute them under the Espionage Act. But Assange has never done that. Assange has always published. He's published material. He's authenticated. He's quickly withdrawn to a lot of trouble to authenticate material but never published anything that's not genuine. Absolutely right. Absolutely right. Authenticate everything and publish what you know to be true, which is pure journalism. Which goes back to the Hillary, the Richard Hillary emails and that's to do with, were they authentic? Yes. Are they in the public interest? Yes. Publish them. That's what we do. Yes. And the most important role of journalism to hold power to account. Because if we're not doing that, then... But not holding power to account. We've met and we're earning a lot more money working from a large organization that wishes to silence journalism. And there are many of them. You may work from a government, for example, who will pay you a lot more money to misrepresent the truth. And to journalists who haven't got enough time to check it very often now, that you would by being a journalist, struggling to hold, as you said in that cliche, but I think very accurate description of journalism, holding truth to power. Because unless you're doing that, what's the point? Why bother? Why bother being a journalist unless you're doing something like that? Another question. The soundest lawyer, Dupont Gretti, has become the French foreign minister or justice minister? Justice minister. Yes. And we know that Francis A. Sange was seen as Simon in the two events connected. Well, I think that probably during the Sange, we wish they were. But I think that he got the job because he was a rather outlier.  See, the chap, offended by the left and right in France against the Me Too movement, but wants to see Marine Le Pen's party criminalised. So he's got, you know, so Macron speaks to him. But the upside for WikiLeaks is that he actually campaigned to get a son brought to France. And I think that, you know, if there's an upside to it, then that's it. And you'd be happy to have at least a friend in court, rather than an enemy in an adjacent country. I just want to ask you another question about something you said earlier. And that is how we, where we go from here as a society, because if pressure is going to be on journalists and media organisations to self-censor, and then what you're saying is that someone outside an independent, like Julian Assange, by doing what he's doing, he is making the governments go hard to control the narrative. Or how is this resolved? How is this going to be resolved? What's the way forward so that we can have a fairer society? I mean, that there will always be these tensions. They'll always be these tensions. We're just moving to an extreme But I think that the question about security and national intelligence is it's clear to say that there are some things that are not many. And Paul Barrett, who was previously to say defence here, he said there were a handful of secrets. Most of the stuff that's out there, most of the stuff that WikiLeaks produced was to secret level, which is, by the way, not a very high level. But governments wish to control every single piece of information. And the problem that we came to media because of the way that the internet and Google and Facebook have destroyed the model and advertising has been sucked away, they can't hold governments and federal organisations account the way that they should. How do we actually get ahead of that? You have to have a system to support public broadcasting, which is why the cuts on the ABC point the finger directly at the way the government wants to run. They want to run down. They're delighted that newspapers are shocking. They're delighted they can then put their press releases out and have them meddle in there. There's no one standing in the way. They'd like to run the ABC down and run it out of town and run it out of business.  I mean, there'd be some in the liberal party, the national party, that would say, no, that's not true. That's absolutely not true. But the ideology is to destroy all questioning opposition. And just by the way, the point of the finger of China and Hong Kong is a little bit rich, considering what's been happening with Assange and the failure to stand up for somebody who does hold truth to account. The answer to your question is, I don't know the answer to that, but I do know that by having robust, healthy, open discussions like this and talking about these issues can actually make people think about what kind of country they want to be in and to wrestle with those problems. I think you're absolutely right. And I think we also need leaders who are big enough to say, you know what, I think that was a mistake. I think we can do things differently. And with the courage to stand up to our allies, because we don't have that. No, we don't have that. We don't have that, but we're about to see America, maybe not disintegrated in my lifetime, but it seems to be putting more in at the moment. And how are we going to manage this step away from engaging with China? Australia just needs to be more independent than this huge white, the passing jab of people who want to be more independent. If you want to be independent, you're going to have to pay for the two and a half trillion GDP. I don't know. That's part of the debate. Do we want more independence so that we're not involved in foreign wars? If foreign wars were the British, if foreign wars were the Americans, or if foreign wars were the Chinese? I mean, that's the sort of position you've got to get to to engage the public and talk to the public. I think honestly, that's where we stand. And understanding why we enter foreign wars is so important. And many of Wikileaks releases enable us to do exactly that, as as summarised, so will in this book, What Understand What, which really gives us insight into Americans' foreign policy and how Australian foreign policy is linked to that. We need, as the public, to understand all of that. Thank you very much, Andrew. It's been a great discussion. I'm sure people listening wish that, you know, there were other questions that could have been answered. But I think we have to stop it. Stop it there. Good luck with the book. I hope that, you know, the launching of your update forth is going to focus on this very, very important issue, but not just personally for Julian, but also for us as a society. Thanks very much, Andrew. Thank you.


Hi everyone, Joe from jaspyscasebreaks.com with a dual case break of Hit Parade Football. It's autographed, it's Platinum Edition, it's Series 19, dual case break number two. Big thanks to this group for making it happen. Thanks to all the people who bought their spots straight up and congrats to the people who won their spots in that Chronicles filler break. All 32 football teams are in. Let's go. Let's roll it. Let's roll it. Five times each. One, two, three, four, and five. Five, we got Bobby down to Brian, one and a four, five times for the NFL teams. One, two, three, four, and a five, and a one, five times. We got the Rams down to the Bengals after five. All right, Bobby with the Rams, Nico with the Titans, Nancy with the Bills, Chad with the Jets, Dayton with the Giants. James with the Falcons and Cole, last spot Mojo. Got my Raiders. James with the Panthers, Ed with the Chiefs, Bobby with the Cardinals, Thomas with the Browns, Nestor with the Packers, Simon with the Buccaneers, Ed with the Steelers, Jared with the Dolphins, Kevin with the Vikings, Lee with the Seahawks, Bobby with the Patriots, Juan with the Ravens, Nancy with the Broncos, Robert with the Cowboys, Ed with the Niners and Bears, Bobby with the Lions and Eagles, James with the Commanders, Ryan Redman with the Texans, Bobby with the Saints, Ed with the Colts, Ken with the Jaguars, Bobby with the Chargers, and Brian with the Cincinnati Bengals. Let's alphabetize by team and we're going to pause the video for a bit and we're going to open up the trade window. When we come back, we'll see if there's any trades and then we'll have the dual case breaks. I'll stick around. We'll see you on the other side. All right. Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. No deals were done here on a Wednesday. Got Platinum Edition Series 19. Big thanks to everybody here for making this happen. I appreciate it. All right. There it is. Autograph Platinum Series 19. Good luck. Yeah, Simon was trying to trade. No offers for the Buccaneers. He wanted that tried to trade, couldn't trade Mojo anyway. You got 20 boxes to see how that turns out. Hopefully some big hits for most of you. Only 20 boxes, so it can't be all of you. I'm hoping most of you. All right. First one out of the gate is going to be a bird team. That's the Ravens. Ray Lewis. What time is it? A hit from Jaspy's time. 12 out of 15 that goes to Juan and the Baltimore Ravens. I've long dreamed of an alarm clock with Ray Lewis' voice saying what time is it? Wake up time. That get me up in the morning pretty quickly, I would think. I would be motivating. We got a Jalen Waddle from Spectra Football. Love that spectra design. Three color patch, an auto, an RPA for the Dolphins. That is 48 out of 75. That's going to go to Jared in Miami. Next is Daniel Jones. Rookie Auto Daniel Jones, Rookie Ticket Autograph Daniel Jones. 136 out of 149. That's for Dayton, New York football giants. Getting that big contract. Next up, Rookie Autograph. That is Deandre Hopkins. Nice. That's a catch. That's awesome. From an old 2013 contenders football set, On-Card Autograph, Ryan Redman, Houston Texans. Very nice. We've got a commander, Johan Dotson. Mystique Rookie Autograph from Illusions. Three out of three. James. All the commanders out of five's and under get the train whistle. All aboard the Big Head Express. Had to go three for the three out of three. Three on the bell. Halfway through this first half, or this first case of a dual case break. Got a Viking. It's Justin Jefferson. Back to the future, Autograph. 70 out of 149. Minnesota Vikings, Kevin and the Vikings. We've got a cat team. It is running by Travis Etienne Jr. Dual Relic and Autograph from Panini 1, NFL 58 out of 99. That's going to be for Ken and the Jaguars. There you go. That's Dayton's giants. He's happy. He was hoping for a rookie Danny Dimes in this. I like that he got the big contract. He looked good last year. Hopefully he can keep building on that. Hopefully the giants keep building around him. All right. We've got a plate and Autograph for the Fly Eagles Fly. It's a Miles Sanders. One of one. Three color patch and Autograph. Eagles. That's going to be for Bobby. Bobby. All aboard the Big Head Express. Two more and then another case. Got a die cut, Autograph, Devonte Adams from an old Top Finest football set. That's a catch. Six out of 10. That looks nice. Who's got the Packers? Nester got randomized the Packers. Nice. Tenth hit. Is a Patriot, Matt Jones. Two color Relic and Autograph. Two out of 25. That is gold from 2022 gold standard football. That's Bobby and the Patriots. One case down. Another case to go. Series 19 Platinum Autographed Edition. Too many hits packed in there. We've got another Daniel Jones for Dayton. This time from Origins Football. Really like that Origins design. Rookie on card auto. New York football giant, Staten Rogers. Here is a Deshaun Watson. Rookie Deshaun Watson. Four out of 50. Two color patch, not a graph from limited football. Houston. That's going to be for Ryan. A graded card. PSA. PSA nine, it looks like. It's Devonta Smith from 2021 Prism. Rookie Auto Devonta Smith graded a PSA nine. Bobby and the Eagles. Another graded card. Feels like a PSA slab it is. PSA 10, another bird team. JK Dobbins from 2020 Select. 76 out of 99. That'll be for Juan and the Ravens. There's Justin Fields. Rookie Justin Fields. Nice autograph going to Ed Peeb and the Bears. The pink parallel, is that from a retail box? Or, forget where the, choice? No, not choice. Either way. Nice autograph. There's Aaron Jones. Packers. Seven out of 49. That's going to go to Nestor. Nancy looking for bills or Broncos. We've got four chances left. Good luck, good luck everybody. Yeah, were those sell sheet hits? Yeah, that Justin Fields, a sell sheet hit. Did we get one in the first half? I don't think we saw one in the first half. In the first case. Although they do make, I think they had, there's like a second picture that we don't, if we didn't post there, could be other sell sheets. All right, then we've got, Saus Gardner from XR Football. Triple relic and autograph, 13 out of 15. Chad B and the Jets. Here's some Monday night heroes. Adrian Peterson. Wow, from 2008, Donner's Classics Football. Jersey and Black Ink Autograph. 16 out of 25, that's pretty cool. That's from Minnesota. That's going to go to Kevin M and Minnesota. There's Aiden Hutchinson. From Spectra Football. Nice RPA. Two color patch, silver ink autograph. Three out of 10. Detroit, Bobby B with Detroit. All right, last one, 20th box. Fingers crossed, good luck. Thanks everyone for getting in. Will the hit list get a hit? Or will the people that hit get a cherry on top and get another hit? It is Micah Parsons in his Penn State Gear 9 out of 25. Two color jersey and autograph from Immaculate Collegiate Football, that's going to go to Dallas. And that's for Robert. There you go, Robert. And there you go, everybody. Another nice hit parade, dual case break in the books. Keep your eye out for more on Jasper's casebreaks.com. I'm Joe, I'll see you next time for the next one. Bye-bye.


Sir, Guru, would you please how to teach for small children's time and dhyana and pranayana for spending time? What's your name? Smriti? How to spend time and what?  Yes, sir. Yes, all these people lost it.  They were just happy and nice at one time. They just messed it up. So now we are trying to put them back into square one. Actually, I would like to take them beyond where they are. But right now, because they have even lost what they had in the first days, we are trying to put them back to childhood first. They are not adults. They are lost children. They are people who have lost their childhood and not found their adulthood yet. Really. Now, all these answers are too complicated for you.  Always.  Hmm? You like it. Sometimes, some things you may not like it, isn't it? Yes. So even if you don't like it, you just learn to do it joyful. Okay? Yes. So that is Diana for you right now.


oh yeah alright guys good morning everyone oh that was a little bit much I am filming a Q&A drive with me except for I'm not driving Quinten is my driver for the day and I'm gonna be answering some questions oh my gosh it's so hot I'm sweating question before the Q&A even though I'm not supposed to ask questions do you wave at people when you are by are you a waiver do you smile do you not do I say hi and I smile yeah I'm from Texas yeah what do you do comment down below comment down below people I'm so sorry guys if the AC bothers you if I mean it's just do you want me to die in this car I'm gonna zoom it out we all know Quinten's in the car anyways you wanted to go to Starbucks I wanted to film a Q&A he said let's film it on the way and I was like genius idea okay folklore song rating so this is a piece of art and it would be almost disrespectful of me to rate the songs also my friend Marga rated them and then everyone like killed her for it and that's exactly why she didn't want to I love genuinely every single song on the album this is exactly the 10 or so five I've won it's fall in an album and it's just a masterpiece truly it is book recommendations for wanting to get into business the first one I think about the one that like got me so excited for everything was girl boss I know like some shocker and like very basic of me girl boss was like my first one that got me really excited honestly I have a lot if you just go to amazon.com slash shop slash Kinsey Elizabeth I have a whole book recommendations like tab best coffee cafes in LA blue bottle I miss blue bottle Alfred cha cha matcha if you want matcha go get him tiger go get him tiger Fred sequel how do you have such an engaged following for being under a hundred thousand thank you I think what's your favorite part about living in Texas honestly everything I'm your affordable closet staples okay honestly this jacket that I'm wearing right now is just like an Amazon like bait actually it's a Haynes jacket I don't know why I keep saying it's Amazon basics but I got on Amazon I have a link down below it's perfect to throw on in the morning over you like what you're working out in I pretty much wear a zip up jacket like every single morning that's like an athleisure wear a thing I can do an entire video on this if you guys would like I'm down what is the best way to get through college as a Christian so popular opinion and maybe I'm wrong which is probably the case but also I think it goes back to this like us versus them mentality that I think is like really unhealthy stay in your own lane do whatever you want to do the same way they're gonna do whatever they want to you know it is helpful to have like friends with the same kind of views as you as well I also think it's equally as important to have friends with completely opposing views but just in the way that it's really helpful for me to have friends who like do YouTube and stuff it's kind of similar to that would you ever consider moving to Nashville never say never like if I that's our favorite show ever yeah but I love Nashville as well I haven't been I'm getting a lot of questions about faith advice on diving into the Bible and being consistent like how to grow in your faith how to make friends who have the same faith as you how someone said they really need to talk someone to someone about faith that they don't have any friends or tips well conveniently I've solved all of your problems so today is the day that the living room comes out which is what I've been kind of talking about in recent vlogs and I've been like sharing it on Instagram and stuff but I am so excited so basically it is just a monthly subscription of faith content I know a lot of people are gonna be like why is this not like free and just a YouTube channel and stuff like my the vision that I have for this is not a YouTube channel it's a subscription model and service and also like if you just want free content I have a hundred plus podcast episodes and like 800 videos on YouTube already and I talk about faith in a lot of that but this is more so if you're taking it a lot more seriously and you just want to have something that kind of structures you a little bit more and also I feel like it's a lot more relatable to people because it's like me and my friends and we're just sharing a bunch of stuff like I was waiting for better lighting like I was saying I just felt like when I was younger I didn't necessarily have someone that I could like fully relate to and I feel like obviously I feel like a lot of you guys who watch my videos can really I would assume I don't know but it's gonna be faith-based but we're gonna be like very raw and real and also because it's behind a paywall I feel so much more comfortable opening up like I filmed or I recorded an entire episode that's like my testimony my story that you guys request all the time and I was way more open just because I felt way more comfortable I am not perfect I'm not perfect in my faith I think I'm actively trying to grow and I want us to do that together something I always go back to this is a quote that I got from like a Hillsong pamphlet two or three years ago maybe three or four honestly and it's do you remember where you were when the lights turned on and I think about that all the time whenever I maybe I'm feeling a little bit stagnant in my faith they're just not really like on fire and it's like do you remember where you were when the lights turned on and I think back to my life before God and before my relationship with Jesus and then I think to where I'm at now and just like how I feel inside like my life like there's been so many hard things that have happened since I even went back to church but it that's not the point it's how I it's the peace and the freedom that I have now Q and I recorded an episode together for this month I'm gonna be recording my friend Nicole all about her like dating journey and transformation she always talks about this and she has such great things to say I'm doing weekly devotionals it's gonna be videos Dom's gonna be on it all my friends and it's gonna be really really really cool the Instagram is obviously free for anyone to follow but it is gonna be $10 a month we are putting so so so much work into this and I see it becoming like very cool I have like very cool long term vision for it but um yeah I will have a link down below we're just hosting it on patreon currently made a mom every single month there's six videos two podcasts two guided prayers and that's like minimum we're all probably always gonna be posting more so very very excited for that you guys can check it out down below what Kindle do you have I have the Kindle Oasis it is the best thing ever but I got Q the Kindle paperweight and white which one is it I don't know but he likes that one too white paper white for some reason yeah I think so too um and a lot of you guys in the Facebook groups have said that you actually like that one better and I've used both I definitely like my Oasis better but I don't know if I just because I'm more comfortable but the Oasis is like double like more than double the price of this it's something that I use like four times a day I am how much am I reading off this Kindle oh she reads your Kindle while she drives no I don't but I'm reading it constantly so yeah don't worry I've got this you have many ice dirty chai three shots of espresso and then egg white egg bites in a perfect bar no I'm actually not hungry so I'll just do a way but we'll keep it at that perfect um can I have a vinty iced dirty child this is my first time getting on social media this morning and apparently there was an earthquake in our life oh no people's that's why I was looking at the Twitter just now TK if you were one outfit the rest of your life what would it be okay honestly white sneakers jeans white top oversized leather jacket or if it's like athleisure wear probably something like this or a dress a dress I was gonna say an Aritzia set for you or a townless set fair how do you combine your social activism with your religious beliefs they go hand-in-hand Jesus said they will know you buy your love love people true what's the biggest thing you've learned from being stuck in quarantine or I enjoy the lifestyle a lot more than I ever thought I would okay I get a lot of questions on are you guys waiting for marriage answers yes I've answered this before but yeah we are now getting our drinks I'm sorry you're gonna arm work out thank you oh no no no no I'm sorry thank you we're at Starbucks because of the drive-thru for this video so I am sorry guys do you feel like Zola to help you yes I do I have been having problems ever since I got on it I definitely have it like physical symptoms now which I've never really had an anxiety so the yawning thing I have that all the time mainly at night honestly it's been pretty bad lately but overall I feel way more emotionally sane and like level-headed I feel I just feel more stable we're getting a lot of questions about marriage not right now I am going blonde you can't really tell but my hair is wet right now but I already started the process the other day I just wasn't vlogging or anything I haven't really been vlogging this week basically my sister does my hair and she has like removed all the color and stuff so actually when it's dry it's a lot more blonde right now and then obviously it's gonna be a process so eventually hopefully I will be blonde for all of you haters who think it isn't a good idea both my sister and my mom are blonde it looks really good where do you see yourself in five years in five years married living in a new house and really like doing five-year plans anymore probably a five-year plan sorting out five years I'll be 30 season do you watch your friends YouTube videos yes I am like the most avid YouTube video Walter who's your favorite to watch on YouTube right now I've been loving Margot's vlogs I've already mentioned her in this video I love Julia Haven's I love Michelle Reed I love honestly so many people obviously Keaton a lot of people I love Brooks Boggs Desi Perkins oh my gosh her infertility journey was the but like that needs to win some sort of a word it was the best thing that ever happened to me and I firmly firmly believe that wow it was just so incredible you eat healthy and what do like normally so like we really balanced yeah favorite drink a Bible verse drink overall is actually probably lemonade and then Bible verse Psalm 5 3 in the passion translation do you think you'd ever enjoy working for someone other than yourself like it does to us office job yeah I don't see myself ever doing that but I don't think I would like hate it by any means what are your favorite snacks lately honestly guys that's a problem but definitely white cheddar cheez-its that's like not the snack oh also an apples and peanut butter I've been eating that probably more than my white cheddar cheez-its but those definitely stand out how long we stay in your house before you move um probably at least three years I'm assuming but I saw diving into the Bible and being consistent join the living room okay guys I feel like that is pretty much it so I hope you guys enjoyed today's I almost had vlog today's video if you guys have not already be sure to subscribe also if you're interested I would love for you guys to join the living room I'm so excited I think you guys are really really gonna love it I wish I had this honestly not even when I was younger to set any stage in my life also like my hand right now we don't talk about it again so that is it I hope you guys enjoyed today's video I'll see you guys in the living room hopefully the Instagram will be down below love you guys so much and I'll see you soon


A 19 year old taking the NBA by storm, he's doing things that only very few rookies have done in the NBA's history and is in no way shape or form going to lose the NBA 2019 rookie of the year. This kid is truly that good, in fact he is that good that he should have made the 2019 NBA All-Star game as well. The third overall peak in the 2018 draft is amongst the top 5 rookies in every statistical offensive category. He's registered at 20.4 points per game, almost 7 rebounds and 5.4 assists per game. When you look at the fan voting, he tallied in behind LeBron and Yarnis as the third most votes for the NBA All-Star game. LeBron is the captain and so is Yarnis, which shows how great Luca is through the fans' eyes. And this isn't a compensation vote that players like Derrick Rose get and you know a few years ago Zasar Petrullia, this is a vote that people actually wanted to see in the All-Star game and I get that he has the whole European fan base behind him but at the same time he almost deserves to have the amount of votes that he has had, maybe not third amongst all NBA players but he does deserve to have a large fan voting considering how good he has been playing in his first ever NBA season. I understand how the All-Stars are selected as the fans on the account for 50% of the overall vote. The media and players have a 25% stake and the coaches count for the final 25% which is an attempt to prevent fans from picking a fan favourite like I said Dwayne Wade, Derrick Rose, Zasar Petrullia because a player that's undeserving like Zasar Petrullia who was coming second at one point in the voting a couple of years ago, if you've watched the kid play he is clearly deserving. Luca Dontich is one of those players that isn't just deserving for a rookie but for an NBA player in general. Now let's break it down. Before I get started if you're new around here be sure to hit that subscribe button and leave a like if you enjoy these types of videos so here is the case, just the case for why Luca Dontich should have been an All-Star in 2019. And I'm not necessarily saying that he should have been 100% in over someone like Drew Holiday or other players in the league, I'm just making a case for why Luca should have been in the All-Star game for 2019. And obviously I get his time will eventually come and I'd love to hear your thoughts on if he got snubbed or not or if he really just should not have made it at all. First off we have to look at who he would have been replacing if he were to have made the All-Star game. Obviously he's in the Western Conference and he probably would not have been named a starter despite the fan vote. Obviously Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant, Paul George, James Harden and LeBron have had incredible seasons and they've shown it each and every year. They are clearly deserving to be named the starters for the West. Now the first argument is that Dontich has not led his team to enough wins to be named an All-Star. Well number one this is an All-Star game not an MVP race so wins and losses shouldn't be a huge factor in making the team or not. But I will agree no players should be named an All-Star if their team is playing horribly versus someone who's on the fence of making the team and their team is actually winning. The second point is that the Mavericks at the time of recording this video have had a better record than the Pelicans who have Anthony Davis despite his injury in the game as they have a 23 and 31 record and the Dallas Mavericks have a 24 and 28 record and a one game below the Timberwolves who have Carl Anthony Towns in addition to only being three less wins away from the Lakers who have LeBron James the captain of the West. Now I understand that obviously LeBron James and Anthony Davis will probably make it each and every year they play and are healthy. I understand that but all I'm saying is their records shouldn't be a major factor for Dontich not to have made it because clearly their record is not much better if not worse considering he has a similar record to Towns and Davis and a better record than the two East players in Bill and Vucevich so fan voting a tick record not questionable enough not to have made it now let's look at the stats let me give you a few players and you tell me who the All-Star is and these are the stats at the time of recording this video player one he averages 21.8 points on 46 shooting four rebounds and two assists player two he averages 20.7 points on 46 shooting with seven rebounds and 5.5 assists and this third player averages 21 points 8.9 rebounds and 2.6 assists the first player was Clay Thompson who gets far more open looks than Luca Dontich has this entire season and pretty much since he's got Stefan Curry and Kevin Durant on his team and now to Marcus Cousins as well he averages just one point more the final player was Lamarcus Oldridge now I know it doesn't really make sense considering he's part of the front court but actually it does make sense because Luca for the All-Star game was voted in as a front court player for some weird reason which I don't really understand because he actually plays shooting guard Harrison Barnes he recently got traded but he was actually the small forward for pretty much the entire season so Luca was actually voted in as a front court player when really I believe he's played most of the year at the two with Barnes playing at the three so honestly I believe he should have replaced Clay even though he wasn't a shooting guard for the All-Star game I feel they should have had some exception considering he's been a shooting guard for the entirety of this year now don't get me wrong Clay Thompson has been so hot recently in the last month or two Clay Thompson has almost been unstoppable but Luca Donchage overall when you count the entire season has had a better season in terms of stats and just because the Warriors are the first seed with four other All-Stars on his team I believe he gets some very good looks from the floor that Donchage struggles to get each and every night rather he has to create his own shot each and every night which to me is far harder task not to mention he also facilitates for the rest of his team which which Clay doesn't really do lastly Clay averages just one more point whilst taking 18.4 fill goal attempts Luca Donchage only takes 15.8 so Clay Thompson has more open looks more shot attempts and plays an extra two minutes per game I understand Clay Thompson he's a terrific player one of the greatest shooters in the NBA of all time but statistically speaking Donchage has had a better season Thompson struggled to open the year which we all pretty much know how he started off this year and whilst he has rebounded from his horrible start he's just shooting 37.9 percent from the arc his worst percentage in his eight year career he's also connected on 46.2 percent of his total shots his worst fill goal percentage since 2013 2014 whereas Luca Donchage he's had a fantastic season and many believed he'd end up in the game including myself the first rookie since Blake Griffin whilst the Mavericks are just 23 and 27 but are much improved off last season Donchage is the main reason why and this is why I think he deserves to be an NBA All-Star but look I can obviously see why Luca Donchage isn't an All-Star this season I've been following the NBA for a while and I have seen this before this is just a case for why Luca Donchage isn't but when you look at why I think he should have been possibly it's just the same reason why Ben Simmonds should have been one last season behind Goren Dragic when realistically I think everyone can agree looking back that Ben Simmonds should have been one and Goren Dragic shouldn't have been and I'm a heat fan saying that clearly though I have a large bias towards Ben Simmons but at the same time I think we can all agree that Ben Simmonds should have been one I don't think that's a question at this point so that's why I believe that Luca Donchage could have made the All-Star game this season and based on the Mavs record I can see why he isn't an All-Star but like I said I don't think the record should have a major factor considering many other players have made it and their records aren't better than the Mavs his statistics don't prove otherwise so I don't see why he shouldn't have made it with that being said I'd love to hear what you guys think down below was Luca snub from the All-Star game or was he not let me know what you guys think down below if you're new around here be sure to hit that subscribe button leave a like if you're new let's try and reach a thousand likes for the next video the next video is actually an IRL video so I'd love if you guys could stay tuned for that it's actually a really fun video so I'll leave a sneak peek right 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So right here we have a special glove here with a bebop sensors. So hello, so who are you? So my name is CJ, I run business development for bebop sensors. And you're doing a special smart glove? What is this? So our technology is that we use fabric to measure physical change. I can go ahead and take that off so you're not stuffed here the whole time. So can you show how it is inside? You have it somewhere? Sure, sure, sure.  Thanks. So this is what's inside? Correct.  It's a piezo-resistive, non-woven material that in this deployment we're using to measure finger bent. So for example, you can play the guitar. Correct. So let me get this on, calibrate the system. And there's also a built-in haptics? Correct. So when I strum the guitar chords, I can feel in the fingertips a buzzing, a vibration. How do they feel the vibration in the finger? It's impressive, right? So each tip has a vibration? Correct. So five fingertips, and then a palm haptic as well. But you're not showing here how it looks like the vibration, right? No, we don't have an example of that out. So this is the raw sensor. The haptics are not added in this example. But it's somehow connected to the haptics. And is it the same kind of material or something totally different than the haptics? It's a proprietary transducer that we developed in-house. And we simply run conductive inks in order to get data from both the haptics and the fabric sensors. So can you play some cool song? I mean, it's a software demo. Just meant to showcase finger bend, not necessarily individual sounds. But it gets the point across. That's really cool. Yeah, it's us. Oh, you're doing a whole, so there's a corporate direction. Which you perform like this. Yeah, one day. One day. I'm more of a dancer than a musician, but um. So I saw E-Buff sensors at the ID Tech X once. Yes. You had some stuff in the shoe and the instruments, right? Yeah, so our core technology was developed under Keith McMillan Instruments, our sister company. That we built keyboards and drum pads out of. And then we found some industrial applications for the smart fabric technology. Yes, so the BOP pad is commercially available through keithmcmillaninstruments.com. So this is a real product right there? Correct. BOP pads, those are about $200, $199. And it deploys our smart fabric technology in a music device that has an X Y and C pressure sensor. Nice, so this is very stable, very precise or? Correct. Is that the best kind of like an electronic drum kit? It is at the moment, so. So whatever role and core all these guys are doing? It's not as accurate as this one? You can do roles with it. I'm not much of a drummer myself, but if you're skilled enough to do a role. You can look on the website and see the celebrity there. Nice. It's actually deployed in the musical instruments. And for the past three and a half years, B-BOP has been developing the technology, building relationships with global manufacturers and Fortune 500 companies. And we've seen a lot of adoption in automotive, consumer health, VR and gaming, and then IoT. So any sort of connected product where they need a flexible force sensor, we've seen really good adoption. Where are you based? We're in Berkeley, California, and we're a team of about 20 right now. So this is Silicon Valley? Correct. A lot of good technology companies there. How old is the company? B-BOP is three and a half years old. Keith McMillan Instruments is about eight or nine years old. So as a partner? It's a sister company, yeah. We transfer the IP and the patents over to B-BOP, so. All right, and right here, I'm stepping on one of your sensors, right? Correct, so this is a format, it understands. Right here, you can see I'm going back and forth on my feet, on the sides. You put this in an insult, you can understand. And you have a demonstration right here. So we can also do fingertip level pressure. We can do multi-touch swipes, taps, gestures. So very low response range for pressure input. So how does it work? What is behind here? So the fabric is our core technology. It's a non-woven piezo-resistant material that is the sensor. So the fabric is what we're drawing information from. We print conductive inks in order to draw data from the system, but the magic is the fabric. Fabric. Correct. Like your t-shirt? Correct, so a little different, but. How is it different from your t-shirt? So this is a cotton material. This is a non-woven that we treat with a chemical, graphite slurry essentially. So we bind graphite nanoparticles to the fibers and that allows you to understand the change in resistance. Everybody's talking about graphene is the next thing and you're like, you're totally on top of it. Graphite and graphene are pretty similar. I was going to say graphite is something else, but it's conductive or resistive. Our technology is resistive. So like the fabric gets stretched or unstretched? We measure the compression when the fibers deform. Capacitive system, if they're wearing a glove, won't work. So resistance technology is valuable in that. It doesn't matter. As long as the fibers are deforming under a seat, under a cushion, under fingertip pressure, we can measure that. So in Silicon Valley, 20 people do another startup. We are. Kind of like growing. Yeah, so we're currently raising our Series A round and we have a lot of interest from several venture capital firms and strategic partners. I hope that's some Bitcoin miners or something I'm joking. No, no, no. But that's something. Hey, if someone wants to fund us, we'll take their money. I'm joking. But so how soon could this potentially be everywhere and close and everywhere? Is this potentially mass-producible? Absolutely. So we only work with partners who have scale that can take our products to market in the tens or hundreds or eventually millions of units a year. So we expect to commercially deploy bebop technology at the end of 2018. Like some kind of a, this could be great for gaming, right? Absolutely. Gaming, education, rehabilitation. There's a lot of uses. We would provide the hardware and then build APIs that our partners can build their own software and applications on top of. I'm thinking people should wear like a Michael Jackson glove. They could. And that, keep the smart phone in the pocket. Dancers, dancers could absolutely. And do like gestures to respond to the emails and stuff. Sure. That's possible. And type in the air. Could you type in the air? You could, absolutely. The limit, the possibilities are limitless. Accelerator. There's an IMU in the system for 9 degrees of freedom. Can we see it or is it secret? We don't have it displayed. So it is a PCV right here. Correct. And a Bluetooth chip. 15-hour life. You could also use a flexible battery. Potentially. Possibly, the back of the hands. It doesn't impact your ability to flex your fingers. So the battery is not the main concern. The companies we're speaking to are looking for accurate bend sensors and quality haptics that are extremely accurate. We can get accuracy within a degree and a half of bend and then a six millisecond response rate. So it's about 150 frames per second. So subframe latency on the glove response. And you can scratch the wall, what does that do? You can, so we can understand textures. This is a rough surface that provides a nice feedback on the system, but you could also have things like a sponge or a smooth surface. So the vibration of the haptics would be a lot lower. How much is the battery life? Does it use 15-hour battery? 15 hours. So it's not a huge battery consumption? On a two-hour charge, 15 hours. How about the haptics? What about it? Is it very battery-intensive? No, it's a 15-hour charge with the haptics and activation of the whole glove. But how does the battery life compare in the haptics compared to a smartphone haptic thing, a motor that vibrates? There are different technologies. I'm not familiar with cell phone haptics. Could you play us out? Yeah, sure. So this is my favorite song. It's called Playing Chords.


From Seattle, Washington. Extracting the signal from the noise. It's theCUBE on the ground at OpenStack Day Seattle 2015. Now, here's your host, John Furrier. Okay, welcome back everyone. We are here in Seattle for a special CUBE on the ground. OTG is our new series, video series. We go out on the ground, talk to thought leaders, get the data shared that with you. I'm John Furrier. Our guest here is Subit Singh, founder and CEO of App Formix here at the OpenStack Innovation Day. Great to see you. Great to see you too, John. We'll see you next week at the OpenStack SV event and get some big news, we won't telegraph that, but talk about your company.   What's going on with you guys? Talk about your company and what your opportunity is. So App Formix thought about two years ago. We based out of San Jose. We're now quite large by talking about startups with 20 people. And what we do is we build monitoring and control solutions for cloud platforms. So think of any OpenStack cloud or any public cloud as well.  We make visible for you how the different applications, VMs, containers, any workload that's running in your cloud infrastructure, how they're consuming the resources. We do very sophisticated analytics to show you in real time what's working and what's not working with your infrastructure or if the applications are performing or not performing and what the root cause for that problem is. And then from there, we also give you the ability to control the resource usage in your infrastructure. So from one single dashboard, you can monitor how your infrastructure is being consumed. You can analyze how it is, if everything is working as it's supposed to be working and then control and make sure that things are actually delivered as they're supposed to be. It sounds too good to be true. I mean, this is the nirvana, the single pane of glass to see the enterprise and cloud is what everyone's wanting. It seems that what you guys have is that oversimplifying. This is the holy grail for cloud because management ultimately in a cloud services market is what everyone wants. Is that what you guys are providing? That's the goal. And I mean, specifically if you look at the open stack ecosystem, what coming in and looking at what was going on, what I realized was that, hey, there was a lot of investment that was going in. What's the distribution? And how is the distribution deployed? But truly the cloud experience is not about just finding that distribution and deploying it. It's about keeping that cloud up and running. It's about ensuring that the applications are getting the SLAs, right? And that's the gap that we wanted to bridge at App Formics. We've been working on this for two years now. We're just emerging from stealth. We've started to pick up customers now. But it's taken time.  Certainly Amazon's been around for over a decade. And enterprises now with private cloud want this, want their workloads at production. Now, it's also a moving train from a technology standpoint that Kubernetes, you got containers. Management seems to be the area that's most critical to kind of keeping the glue, if you will, or keeping on top of things, whether it's security or management. Is that right? Is that the key challenge? Absolutely. Completely. That is the key challenge. And as you're saying, right, it doesn't matter whether it's open stack or Kubernetes. It doesn't matter whether it's VMs or containers. That is the key challenge. How are you managing your infrastructure? And how do you continue to manage your infrastructure? It's not just getting it up and running. You did the epoch, but now these clusters are in production. And how are you getting that best performance in production? That is the key challenge. Talk about the old days. And I'm old, so I can reflect on the old days. General purpose computers, network architectures that were stable. You do an architectural plan. And it's baked and it's baked for five, 10 years. That's changed. I mean, you're seeing different approaches. The diversity of solutions are driven by workloads, whether you're a Facebook as an app that has underlying platform, and it has a variety of apps that's underlying platform, aka Cloud. Mobility is now a challenge. What is different now? And what's the challenge on the engineering side, as well as the management side? And where does that tie together? Because that seems to be the hotspot right now.  Now it seems to be an agile architecture. I hate to use the word agile, but in this case, it kind of makes sense. Absolutely. So if I can just talk about that same thing. I think we're on the third transformation. The first one was, as you pointed out, you made your, let's just say, your pod, which was purpose-built for a particular application. You ran that application on that pod. Then came virtualization. And we said, hey, let's start to consolidate. And we virtualized that same pod and just got a higher level of consolidation on it. But we still ran that same application on there. And then from there, we get into this new world of cloud where we want to make one common infrastructure. And then on this one common shared infrastructure, we want to run all our different applications. There's no custom hardware or custom pod that is per application. It's that same cloud. And everything, all the applications are now running on that cloud. And in terms of management, that's a very big nightmare because you have this single environment and you're going to run everything on this single environment. And the reality is that every app that you spin up in the cloud thinks it owns the entire cloud. And it's going to behave as such. And it's going to assume it owns the entire cloud. And it's going to try and use all of the cloud for itself. And then you're going to spin up the second application and the third one and the fourth one. And then how do you manage performance of all these applications as they coexist in the cloud? This is classic policy. I mean, it's like having a kid. You've got to keep them the rules of the road. So with these apps, this is where the policy piece comes in. Policy-driven infrastructure, dynamic. Right, absolutely. But I think that policy-driven infrastructure needs to go one step further. Initially, when we talked about policy-driven, it was still more static in terms of, hey, I'm going to spin this app up. And this is what I want for this app. Now we're getting to that point where your environment is constantly changing under you. We're going from VMs to containers. You spin up containers at will. You spin them down.  And you could have 10 running, or all of a sudden you could have 100 running or 1,000 running. So in this environment, what you need is a very fluid infrastructure as well, because your workloads become so fluid. So really, the key challenge then really comes back to management. How are you going to manage your infrastructure so that all this workload that's so fluid is effectively running on it? So I've got to ask you, so IT was the old model. IT seems to be going away to be some sort of abstract level of services. So we were talking to Sabu from eBay, and we were talking, it's a software problem. It's not an IT problem. Compare and contrast that approach now, because if you believe that you have this environment where apps can take control of the unlimited resources potentially in a dynamic and agile environment that can be configured on the fly, new kinds of virtualization, all kinds of new software, what is the software problem that the customers have to solve, and how does that relate into some of the management innovation that you guys are working on? I think what happens as we get to this app-driven economy is that the IT teams need to evolve and evolve in a way where they become more self-service. And that's the software challenge. And that cloud that they're running in-house is no longer like the traditional IT, which is based on trouble tickets. You want everything to be real-time. You want to deliver all of the analytics, all of the information to the applications and the owners of the applications in real-time so that they can make the right judgment calls on how to deploy their applications, how to run their applications, how to scale their applications. So then the software challenge, what it comes down to is that, hey, I have this cloud environment. How do I ensure that this effectively runs as a multi-tenant cloud environment? How do I enable the APIs and extend them all the way to the end users within the organization? How do I, me as an IT administrator, take myself out of the path so that the developers, the apps, they can innovate faster. The apps can scale on their own. So the challenge really is in defining all of these APIs in software. It's a software-driven economy. Because we're back to OpenStack now. So tie that together now. What is your approach in OpenStack? And how do you guys sell your services? Is it by a license? How do customers buy from you guys? And how do they use that in context to this OpenStack-growing environment? Right. So what AppFormics is, it's a platform for both monitoring and control of your cloud environment. We work both with OpenStack and with Kubernetes. So it's not just limited to OpenStack. But essentially, what we, you can think of us as an add-on. It's, you don't, you have your running OpenStack infrastructure, you really, what it's come down to is click a button, and we automatically learn from your OpenStack controller what your infrastructure looks like, automatically deploy onto your infrastructure, and enable this new set of APIs and this new real-time dashboard for you. It's, it's, it's, what I call- Is there a command center for OpenStack? Absolutely. And, but the way it works though is that you continue to manage OpenStack through your OpenStack dashboard. What, what we enable for you is, is this real-time visibility as to this is how your infrastructure is currently behaving, right? And we then, you know, by doing sophisticated analytics and all the raw data can also predict for you that here is where we feel, you know, there could be problem areas where there's bottlenecks in your infrastructure where you should be paying attention right now, you know, to, to put the pictures in.  Absolutely. It's, it's, it's designed for enterprises to be deployed in enterprise clusters. And most of our early customers, they've been very, they're very sensitive to sending their operational data to the cloud. So they prefer this model where they can deploy entirely inside their enterprise, contain all their data within the enterprise. We also have some service provider customers which work the, work the same way. They enabled us, you know, the visibility service for their customers using our product. Well, congratulations on your success on entrepreneurial venture you got going on, entrepreneur here innovating at OpenStack Innovation Day in Seattle. Good luck. We'll see you next week. It's been seeing the CEO of App Formix here on the ground, this is theCUBE. I'm John Furrier. Thanks for watching. We're here in Seattle.


Hey guys, welcome to SSUnitech, Sushil this side and this is continuation of Power BI Tutorial and today we are going to discuss about the Pi Chart in the Power BI. Go to the Power BI desktop and we will see in the practical how to use the Pi Chart. This is our project by which currently we are working on. Inside the visualizations you can find the Pi Chart. You can click on that and let me try to make it bigger. So in this we want to have each slice that will represent the country. And if we click on the country then we will see the data for the cities. So basically here we have already created the hierarchy for that. So let me try to create one more time for better understanding. So here go to on the city and try to drag and drop in the country. So it will create the hierarchy for country and city. Now let me try to drag and drop this on the legion. So it will have all the countries like Australia, Canada, France, Germany, UK and US. After that inside the values we want to see the order quantities. So let me try to drag and drop the order quantities right here. So let me check it is already summed so that it is fine. Now let me try to turn on the drill down. So once we will turn on after that let me click any one of that. So here we will see the detailed information for the city-wise data. Now go to on the country-wise. So here we are not seeing the country names right here. So for that now go to on the format and try to see what options are available. So here you can see the first of legion.  So let me on this and it is on the right side. If you want then you can make it on the top. I guess that make more sense and let me off this and in the data color you can change the color according to your requirement. So I am not going to change the color in the detailed label. So here let me on this in the label style. So by default it is having data value and percentage of total but we want to see the old detailed label. So on that you will see the country names as well on this indicator. So you can see the United States, Germany, Australia and other. So after that go to on the title in the title you can make the change on the title if you want. Now you can see on the below that is I guess shadow. So let me on this shadow. So here you can see the bottom right. You can make it on the center I guess and here shadow position that will be inside or outside.  So this is all about the shadow.  So once you will increase the radius size then it will little bit circle from the corners. So now here you can see in the corners if you will see then that make more much more sense like it has the border it has the shadow and you can also see the radius that is little bit curve from the corners. So this is all about the pie chart. If you have any doubt then you can drop your question on the comment box. I will try to response on your question. Thank you so much guys for watching this video. If you like this video please subscribe our channel to get many more videos. Don't forget to press the bell icon to get the notification of our newly uploaded videos. Thank you so much.