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From the Law of Unintended Consequences:
Endurance couch-surfer and WikiLeaker-in-chief Julian Assange has thanked US authorities for the banking blockade that made it hard to donate fiat currencies to his organisation, because it inadvertently enriched the organisation.
The blockade first appeared in 2010, after the United States expressed its ire at WikiLeaks' publication of diplomatic cables. Not long afterwards, Mastercard and Visa stopped processing donations sent to the site.
WikiLeaks sued and won against Visa, but the blockade persisted. The organisation therefore sought alternative funding including Bitcoin.
Which brings us to an Assange Tweet from Sunday, as follows.
My deepest thanks to the US government, Senator McCain and Senator Lieberman for pushing Visa, MasterCard, Payal, AmEx, Mooneybookers, et al, into erecting an illegal banking blockade against @WikiLeaks starting in 2010. It caused us to invest in Bitcoin -- with > 50000% return. pic.twitter.com/9i8D69yxLC
— Julian Assange 🔹 (@JulianAssange) October 14, 2017
> 50,000%?
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday October 16 2017, @06:56PM (5 children)
Hillary Clinton Brands Julian Assange a ‘Tool of Russian Intelligence’ [bloomberg.com]
Trump has a bully pulpit, Clinton has a loser's pulpit.
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(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday October 16 2017, @08:02PM (3 children)
The moment the bitch appeared on my TV last evening for the [abc.net.au]... I swear I had to fight the compulsion to physically clean the screen after the 3-5 seconds it took until I found the buttons on the remote to switch the channel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday October 16 2017, @11:14PM
Gaaaaah, yes. She has set women, feminism, and the Democrat party back decades. Her entire family is corrupt to the core, easily as bad as any Republicans you can name, which IMO is what she and Bill are.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Tuesday October 17 2017, @07:44AM (1 child)
Seems you've got severe issues, then. I wouldn't even have that reaction if I saw Hitler or Stalin on the screen. And that doesn't mean I'd even remotely approve of anything those have done or said.
Honestly, if you can't stand seeing someone you disagree with, then you've got issues. Big issues.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday October 17 2017, @09:52AM
To disagree is something.
To hear "We came, we saw, he died" requires more that disagreement, it must be even farther than repugnance. Because
It more than repugnant, her lack of humanity is horrifying and I reckon should be so for anyone having even a grain of human decency.
If you see this as an issue... here: I'm not proud of it, but I do solemnly declare I don't repent of having this issue.
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In the heated midst of her campaign, when any rational player would have tried to convince some of the undecided or even only dissuade some of the voters on the other side, in a campaign for the president of all americans... I hear the same lack of empathy and the same cold blooded entitled authoritarianism. I goes like this:
No attempt to understand them, no attempt to see why the hell the same people 10 years ago (pre-GFC) have had the decency to keep their racism, sexism, etc under wraps. Simply reject and mock them - this is how you show your tribe that you/they are superior and have the right to despise the other side and feel you have no thing in common with them.
No, I don't think she/her tribe should have shared the racism, sexism, etc... but there's a distance to not having in common even the stress of everyday life, the anguish of having lived a life for nothing, the disappointment to have lived and believed the American dream only to wake up with the cold trickle on your spine of someone - the 0.1% "fuck you, I've got mine and I want more" - that someone that is pissing on you from a kilometre above; from that distance, s/he clearly doesn’t see you as a human being, but as a statistic.
I can disagree with khallow, I can disagree with jmorris (even it is hard sometimes to keep it to the disagreement level only), it's very easy for me to disagree with the trollish and dismissive tone TMB so frequently employs.
I'm sorry if this disappoints you, but for Hillary Clinton disagreement is not enough - my reaction is rejection.
I'd be happy if she'll retreat from political and public life; if she'd have done it the day before yesterday it would still be too late already (but better late then never).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 17 2017, @04:07AM
There's still someone who gives a shit about Killery?
As far as I can see, the 2 major voices among non-Republicans are Bernie Sanders (the most popular political figure in the country) and Ralph Nader [ralphnaderradiohour.com] (4-time presidential candidate; fighting for citizens/consumers since the 1950s).
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