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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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TOO BAD YOU CAN'T BUY a voodoo globe so that you could make the earth spin
real fast and freak everybody out.
-- Jack Handey, The New Mexican, 1988.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Thexalon on Monday October 03 2016, @02:48PM
When somebody reports a loss of nearly $1 billion (also known as about 400 times what a typical American earns over their entire lifetime) in a single year, I have to conclude one of two things is going on: Either they aren't good at managing their money, or they are lying about their loss.
It's not because I believe businesses can't fail. It's that when they fail on such a spectacularly large scale, somebody did something stupid. The most common mistakes that lead to such yuge losses:
- Investing too much before there is a proof of a concept. Successful businesses usually demonstrate that a concept works on a small scale before building up to a mid-sized and then large scale.
- Failing to understand the concept of sunk costs. That is, how much you have already spent on something does not affect whether you should continue to spend more on said something.
- Making poor choices in partners or key subordinate employees, who make the same mistakes you did.
My basic impression of Trump: He's a bit of an idiot who is high-status because of the money and political connections he inherited.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by dyingtolive on Monday October 03 2016, @03:23PM
While I don't disagree with your overall sentiment, can you really judge someone from their circumstances from 20 years ago? I mean, I do, but I think Trump sucks as much as I think that Clinton is still a right-wing warmongering racist who desires censorship.
Don't blame me, I voted for moose wang!
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Monday October 03 2016, @03:39PM
Absolutely, especially when their circumstances from 20 years ago are part of what that someone is citing as reasons why they should be given a vitally important job.
As for Clinton, I'm not convinced about the "racist" part. At least, I don't think she's intentionally racist in the way that Trump definitely is. I think she's probably unconsciously racist the way most people are, and she's ambitious enough that she stirred the Obama birther pot when she thought it would help her win a primary, but I don't think she actually hates people because of their skin color.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by boxfetish on Monday October 03 2016, @06:20PM
Just that they're "superpredators" because of their skin color (or was that unconscious racism?)
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Monday October 03 2016, @06:51PM
Twenty years later, she made a statement about that remark.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2016/02/25/hillary-clinton-responds-to-activist-who-demanded-apology-for-superpredator-remarks/ [washingtonpost.com]
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Monday October 03 2016, @07:18PM
Hillary Clinton's "superpredators" comment wasn't specifically stated to be talking about black people, so yes, I consider it unconscious or closeted racism where she was playing into a racist stereotype without actually indicating that was what she was doing. That is exactly the kind of statement I'd expect to see from someone who had been raised by conservative parents, has since had to consciously try to change her thinking and has a few black friends.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 04 2016, @12:21AM
Trump [...] is high-status because of the money and political connections he inherited.
"Many have asked who's to blame for Donald Trump and I'll tell you who. He's sitting right there, that guy, Mark Burnett", said Jimmy Kimmel at the 2016 Emmys. "Thanks to Mark Burnett we don't have to watch reality shows any more, we're living in one."
Years ago, we in California got Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger simply because people recognized his name on the ballot and put a mark beside his name.
...though they knew nothing about his politics and there was no evidence that he had any experience to indicate that he was capable of running a state.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday October 04 2016, @04:40AM
Years ago, we in California got Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger simply because people recognized his name on the ballot and put a mark beside his name. ...though they knew nothing about his politics and there was no evidence that he had any experience to indicate that he was capable of running a state.
I voted for him and I have to say, he's better than Gray Davis or Jerry Brown, the governors before and after, which I guess is damning with faint praise. As to his experience, he is a successful businessman with a pretty good track record going back to the 70s and he ran a pretty good campaign.