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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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I consider the day misspent that I am not either charged with a crime,
or arrested for one.
-- "Ratsy" Tourbillon
(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]