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Wikileaks has abruptly canceled a much-anticipated announcement on Tuesday. The announcement had been expected to be founder Julian Assange's long-promised document dump on Hillary Clinton.
NBC's Jesse Rodriguez reported that the Tuesday announcement — which was to come from the balcony of London's Ecuadorian Embassy, where Assange has sought sanctuary for years – was canceled due to security concerns.
Wikileaks has not said when it will now make its announcement.
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"October Surprise" Thwarted? Wikileaks Cancels Tuesday Announcement Due to Security Concerns
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(Score: 2) by Justin Case on Monday October 03 2016, @12:49PM
Are you aware of some guarantee that every business venture will be profitable? Or that every investment will occur at the best possible time?
This just feels to me like the typical mud slinging that is designed to be misinterpreted by those who have no experience with such things. And again, I'm not voting for Trump.
(Score: 2) by fnj on Monday October 03 2016, @01:12PM
I'm replying to your comical tagline. You are drawing a moral equivalence between vermin committing evil murder in actual fact, to an imaginary fairy tale?
(Score: 2) by Justin Case on Monday October 03 2016, @11:30PM
Just pointing out that while Christians tromp around spouting "all Muslims are evil because their holy book endorses killing infidels", the Christian religion, if it were to be believed, calls for the same.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday October 04 2016, @04:31AM
the Christian religion, if it were to be believed, calls for the same.
Shouldn't you quote that instead? Hell is allegedly after you die not before. So you would have had some sort of opportunity to become a sufficiently Christian person before you die (up to and including deathbed confessions which are pretty damn convenient, I gather). I believe you can easily find some Old Testament support for killing unbelievers, but talking about Hell is not it.
(Score: 2, Informative) by migz on Tuesday October 04 2016, @06:56AM
"But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together. 35 Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, 36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law? 37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets." - Matthew 22
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 03 2016, @05:00PM
Not to put too fine a point on this, but during this campaign Donald has made much of his business acumen to sell himself to the voters. Losing nearly a billion dollars does call that into question. I can't be bothered to google it for you but I read a while back that if Donald had just put that one million dollar loan from his daddy into an index fund he would have had a much better rate of return on his investment. I'm also pretty sure that paying no taxes will not look so good for those who feel that billionaires aren't putting their shoulder to the wheel along with the rest of us; it just doesn't play well in Peoria, if you know what I mean.
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Tuesday October 04 2016, @05:12AM
Are you aware of some guarantee that every business venture will be profitable? Or that every investment will occur at the best possible time?
The New York Times has another article, which explains their "mismanagement" characterisation. Among other things, they say
But when it comes to running operating businesses, [Mr. Trump] has been something less than a resounding success. The Plaza Hotel in Manhattan went bankrupt under his tutelage, and his casino empire has been under bankruptcy protection twice, in the early 1990s and again this decade.
[...] a shareholder who invested $10,000 in Mr. Trump’s empire when the casino company went public in 1995 would now have about $636. [...]
Over all, an index of casino stocks is up 268 percent since June 1995. Trump investors lost 93 percent.
-- http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/12/nyregion/donald-trump-atlantic-city.html [nytimes.com]
His airline also went bankrupt.
One banker close to the negotiations said the shuttle talks mostly involved banks that had made no other loans to the troubled Trump empire [...]
The syndicate of 20 banks from the United States, Japan, and Europe that holds the $245 million shuttle loan considers the airline's problems to be the result of higher fuel costs and falling ridership levels, rather than poor management by Mr. Trump or his executives, the banker said.
-- http://www.nytimes.com/1990/09/21/business/company-news-1.1-million-loan-payment-missed-by-trump-on-shuttle.html [nytimes.com]
Some other airlines did survive in spite of high fuel prices. Perhaps under great--I mean really, really great--management the Trump Shuttle [wikipedia.org] would have as well.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/pictures/the-many-business-failures-of-donald-trump-20110511/trump-shuttle-0845896 [rollingstone.com]
> This just feels to me like the typical mud slinging that is designed to be misinterpreted by those who have no experience with such things.
I certainly have no experience with such things, but if I were running a business that was in trouble, my instinct would be to either focus on fixing its problems or separate myself from it, before involving myself in other endeavours.
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/have+finger+in+too+many+pies [thefreedictionary.com]