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WikiLeaks' Big Tuesday Announcement Will Now Take Place Via Video (thehill.com)
Long-time Slashdot reader SonicSpike writes that media outlets including Fox News were reporting WikiLeaks cancelled a big announcement scheduled for Tuesday and expected to reveal damaging information about Hillary Clinton. But they were all citing a tweet from NBC as their source. "Due to security concerns at the Ecuadorian Embassy, Julian Assange's balcony announcement on Tues has been cancelled," tweeted NBC producer Jesse Rodriguez -- which was apparently taken to mean the announcement had been cancelled altogether.
But six hours ago, citing WikiLeaks, that same producer reported that Assange "will appear via video link" at a Tuesday press conference in Berlin marking the 10th anniversary of WikiLeaks. While it's possible this "appearance" will be different than the originally scheduled "announcement," it also seems very possible that the NBC producer's tweets were just misunderstood.
But six hours ago, citing WikiLeaks, that same producer reported that Assange "will appear via video link" at a Tuesday press conference in Berlin marking the 10th anniversary of WikiLeaks. While it's possible this "appearance" will be different than the originally scheduled "announcement," it also seems very possible that the NBC producer's tweets were just misunderstood.
This post has no content whatsoever. Maybe if Assange actually reveals something new it might be worth an article, but this seems an article that should have been rejected as content free.
The primary security concern is the balcony not being big enough or strong enough to support Julian's ego.
Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.
I think I'm the only one that likes this meme.
Shot himself 13 times in the back. Hillary Clinton unvailable for comment and does not recall anyway.
Alternative Right.
People hate authority. Most of them hate it simply because the authority they have experienced has not been just controlling, but also flagrantly stupid. Every public official is incompetent and they all want to tax you into oblivion and regulate minor details of behavior as life-changing events. Assange pushes back against authority. Even better, sometimes he nails really stupid authorities. We are all looking forward to whatever "October Surprise" he can cook up for The Establishment Candidate.
Alternative Right.
How can there possibly be any more damaging information than Hillary Clinton has already put on display herself!
We already have the email issue, the Clinton Foundation issue, the fact that the DNC intentionally torpedoed her rival in the primary, etc. I can't see anything else left to reveal that would be any more damaging at this point.
My feeling on both sides is that people should be grown up enough to realize that all politicians aren't "normal people." They have immense power, immense wealth, and are masters at manipulating people to get things they need done. The only reason we didn't hear about their inner circle of dealings in the past is because we didn't used to have every news agency in the country camped out on their doorsteps 24/7 listening to them breathe, or idiotic staffers who can't seem to get their heads around secure email and computer networks. I think we're actually lucky in the US in terms of the level of corruption in our political system..many more countries have it much worse.
Seriously, anyone who voluntarily goes out seeking political office is not normal, plain and simple. You can't expect them to act like regular people. Corporate executives fall into this category too -- most executives live on another planet compared to us in terms of their daily walk through life. You're just not going to get a regular person as a politician or an executive. Trying to hold them to standards like that just breeds disappointment and discontent.
Why is he still in the Ecuadorian Embassy? Didn't the whole investigation get scrapped?
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
We already have the email issue, the Clinton Foundation issue, the fact that the DNC intentionally torpedoed her rival in the primary, etc. I can't see anything else left to reveal that would be any more damaging at this point.
He has said that the next dump contains evidence that will get Hillary Clinton indicted.
I'm quite anxious to see what it is.
Perhaps an early Christmas present for the American people!
Hopefully they don't reveal Trump's tax return, because that will make Hillary look like an idiot for paying tax. Genius
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No matter what year it is over the last 2000 years, some nut thinks it's the Apocalypse.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Assange will announce his first hardware product, the JulianFone. It will be designed to hack into all WiFi nodes within range, suck data from them and display a continuous scroll of surrounding secrets for your viewing pleasure.
It will run only one standard app, Tinder.
... the problem is that too few care. She's on the same 'D' team as 80% of the media, so every incompetent or corrupt act is explained away by legions of sycophants.
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms should be the name of a store, not a government agency.
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Because the poster knew what the fuck he was talking about, maybe?
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
You have to keep up on the /. herd mentality. It changes regularly, and typically by Pi radians.
I generally agree with denouncing the supporter bashing, no matter victim or source. However this is an apt allegory. Either we get the slaughterhouse owner, or we get the farmer that is chained via purse strings to the slaughterhouse owner. To think that one is better than the other from a steer's view is folly.
That's American Politics.
Wrong! #CrookedJesus is a big loser and also a Jew (which is fine) but believe me, he had terrible ratings. Terrible ratings. And he didn't have my temperament and stamina. If you want to be messiah, you've got to have stamina. I said, stamina. I prefer my messiahs not to get captured by Romans and crucified, all right? Sad!
I was going to say something very rough about Jesus and a prostitute. Very rough. But I'm not going to go there, all right?
You are welcome on my lawn.
Oh my GOD! Who the hell CARES ?!
Help! I am a self-aware entity trapped in an abstract function!
Its all about whos football team is moderately for or moderately against abortion rights judicial appointments. Yes I said football team.
Set the fire to the building to force him out and it will be on his head and not the one shot one kill guy.
Jesus is actually quite annoyed by all these "christians"... I loved John Niven's The Second Coming (not for the easily offended)
when there is an actual announcement, everything else is a waste of bandwidth
All of that could be true, and she'd still be a better option than your tiny-handed orange-faced wannabe tyrant.
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
Let me guess: Assange send a team of experts to Hawaii, and they can't BELIEVE what they are finding.
Ever since he started to play in "politics" with a particular bias and trying to influence the outcome of the American election he has lost all credibility with me. I'm betting he can't get his head and his ass (in whatever car he owns) at the same time!
Wikileaks should dump him (if possible).
I couldn't find a thread I liked in this post, though. I'm a Trump supporter, but I am a realist. I have a hard time imagining anything Assange could release that would be material to this race.
I'll be pleased to be proven wrong, but I'm a skeptic.
HBI's Law: Frequency of calling others Nazis is directly correlated with the likelihood of the accuser being Communist.
"And you know cyber is becoming so big today. It’s becoming something that number of years ago, short number of years ago, wasn’t even a word. And now the cyber is so big, and you know look at what they’re doing with the internet. How they’re taking recruiting people through the internet. And part of it is the psychology because so many people think they’re winning. And you know, there’s a whole big thing. Even today, psychology — where CNN came out with a big poll. Their big poll came out today that Trump is winning. It’s good psychology, you know. It’s good psychology. I know that for a fact because people that didn’t call me yesterday, they’re calling me today. So that’s the way life works right?"
That's what makes this sting for Trump. People expect Trump to do well because he's such a great business man. Anything that undermines that narrative is a major thorn in his side.
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even on the right wing sites the closed I could find were folks being fired for what Hilary did. And a firing is up to her boss, which would be Obama. The rest of the "Examples of folks Jailed" were all people who sold classified info to foreign governments.
Nevermind the fact that _everybody_ in the State department was doing what Hilary did. Probably the greatest moment in her career was when a bunch of folks were saying Colin Powel advised her to set up the server and she got up and said: "No, I take full responsibility for my actions" and then a few weeks later it got leaked that Colin did, in fact, suggest running that server. If nothing else that shows a surprising amount of loyalty that she's yet to get any credit for.
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What a load of crap.
A train is out of control on a track. You have access to a switch that could send it to one track with 2 people on it, or another with 5. Those are the choices my friend. You don't get to say, "I'd fix the brakes", or call Superman. Your vote for Johnson will have the affect of rolling dice to decide which track the train takes - which, I suppose if you really think there's no difference between Clinton or Trump on any issue you care about, is rational. But of course the thought that there's no difference is irrational in and of itself.
At best, your point is that we need a different system for electing Presidents - and possibly a large turnout for Johnson might inch that into being. I'd say there are better ways - like electing Johnson (or Sanders, or Stein, or Nader)-like candidates to Congress or State legislatures from districts where they stand a chance of winning. And then changing the election system through a process that can actually do it. Because Presidencies have long-term repercussions, so they're best not used to 'send a message' when there are other, better ways.
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What a load of crap.
A train is out of control on a track. You have access to a switch that could send it to one track with 2 people on it, or another with 5. Those are the choices my friend. You don't get to say, "I'd fix the brakes", or call Superman. Your vote for Johnson will have the affect of rolling dice to decide which track the train takes - which, I suppose if you really think there's no difference between Clinton or Trump on any issue you care about, is rational.
The lesser of two evils is still evil. I'm all for destroying the tracks ahead of the train and using the fallout from the deadly chaos as a good reason to lay new tracks and build a better and more reliable train. That way the out of control train is destroyed far away from my town where a trainwreck would be more catastrophic.
In the ways most pertinent to me, this is choice of which disgusting tyranny I'd rather endure.... my answer is neither.
But of course the thought that there's no difference is irrational in and of itself.
At best, your point is that we need a different system for electing Presidents - and possibly a large turnout for Johnson might inch that into being. I'd say there are better ways - like electing Johnson (or Sanders, or Stein, or Nader)-like candidates to Congress or State legislatures from districts where they stand a chance of winning. And then changing the election system through a process that can actually do it. Because Presidencies have long-term repercussions, so they're best not used to 'send a message' when there are other, better ways.
There's already around 600 libertarians in public office throughout the US, most of them in local or state government. Many Republicans have switched parties as well since the Republicans gradual shift toward becoming the "Christian Nationalist Party" became ever more apparent.
Yes, presidencies have long term repercussions which is precisely why we need qualified people with actual experience governing in that position. Clinton has experience screwing up foreign policy and Trump has experience being a spoiled rich boy smart enough not to play games with his own money when driving businesses into the dirt. Neither of which are something we need to endure at this critical juncture. Both Johnson and Weld are popular 2-term governors with a track record of actual leaving their respective states FAR better off than when they started. And they are on the ballot in all 50 states. Hardly a fringe protest vote.
If you think forcing a shitty destructive candidate down our throats simply to preserve a corrupt and dying 2 party system is "the better way" you are delusional, simply engaging in wishful thinking or just like to parrot popular views concocted to preserve a screwed up system.
But, hey, if you like the current oligarchy feel free to waste your vote on one of those two weasels.
Actions have consequences.
NEGLIGENCE. The omission to do something which a reasonable man, guided by those considerations which ordinarily regulate the conduct of human affairs, would do. or doing something which a prudent and reasonable man would not do. It must be determined in all cases by reference to the situation and knowledge of the parties and all the attendant circumstances.
Hillary's email server was secured the same way that the "reasonable predecessor (aka C. Powell https://www.engadget.com/2016/...)" used. While you can say that slashdot users know better, average joe blow or a braindead politician would not know how to secure an email server, so by definition of law there is no negligence here.
Well, at least I've coaxed you into revealing your utterly nihilistic thought process. My job for today is done - vote for whomever you please, and I hope anybody reading this gets that your advice may be counter-productive - by design.
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I've voted 3rd party ever since Reagan. Can't do it this time. The Clinton/Bush establishment machine is just too obvious for me not to see that they won't allow another "election" to threaten their thirst for power if they get the WH again. This may very well be the last chance to take back control of our country through the ballot box. Clinton is just long-time, known, self-serving evil. I can't be a part of putting them in power over my child's future.
Trump may turn out to be just as bad, but he could be for real. Anyone who'll spend the time to go over his positions( donaldjtrump.com ), and actually pay attention to what he says in full context, should realize that the racist buffoon portrayal is just political fear-mongering. I'm greatly encouraged by the establishment's horror and consternation, on both sides, at the notion of Trump as President. At least there's a possibility he's real. I'm frankly terrified for my child if the Clintons get another stint in the WH.
I'm voting Trump for President this time, but I'll still vote 3rd party everywhere else possible....
When the king heard the words of the Book of the Law he tore his robes.2Kings22:11
Not sure why you think that's so nihilistic. If the citizens on the tracks are a metaphor for the people who will get screwed over by which direction it takes..... I would simply vote to stop the train by whatever means necessary and screw over the people that boarded a train they most likely helped sabotage in the first place. Seems pretty damn logical to me if "fixing the brakes" or SuperMan aren't options.
Whether now or later, stopping the train MUST happen. I'd rather it happened when I was still relatively young and able to recover.
So, I'm a "troll" huh? Could I have asked for a better confirmation of the spiritual condition of today's society? When i get to heaven, I'm going to find Jonah first thing, and let him know just how much he spoke to me...
I'll tell each of you young(and not so young) people the same thing I tell my own grown child, and every one else I care for. You remain ignorant of, or rely on others to explain to you, the contents of the Holy Scriptures at the peril of your own eternal soul.
Here's a man, https://www.youtube.com/watch?... ,who was working in information and military technologies at the highest levels while most all of us were still learning not to shit our pants. I'm nobody, barely a half century of life experience, not much reason for any of you to give me a second thought. But, I dare any of you "educated", "intelligent" men to give Mr. Missler an honest hour of your time and come back saying there's nothing to be gained from a solid personal investigation of the message of the Bible.
When the king heard the words of the Book of the Law he tore his robes.2Kings22:11
...that worked out for him in 2000, when the media was so busy ratfucking him over invented fibs they didn't notice Bush taking credit for a bill he vetoed as governor of Texas.
The media giving Hillary a pass on her lies, corruption and incompetence has nothing to do with her party affiliation - which should clearly be R - and everything to do with her being part of the status quo.
You are right, calling Trump the slaughterhouse owner is seriously unfair... to slaughterhouse owners, who in this metaphor would be Sheldon Adelson and the Koch Brothers.
Trump is more like the crazy guy in the scarecrow suit who is asking the cows to vote for him to burn the barn down with them in it.
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Because voting for a third party won't have the metaphorical effect of stopping the train.
Clinton or Trump is going to be elected, whether or not you think the system by which that happens is corrupt. And calls to 'blow up the tracks' are about as likely to change that corrupt system as your vote is to get Johnson or Stein elected. That's why Bernie Sanders chose not to attempt to run as a 3rd party candidate - he's made the calculation that he can get more of his program enacted by helping elect Clinton than by 'making a statement about the corrupt system'. He's already made that statement in the primary season, and sabotaging the general election won't make that statement any stronger - it'll just make him ignorable as a a saboteur.
I would suggest that your feeling that your protest vote will stop the train - or even move the needle in that direction - is where the narcissism/nihilism lines start to get crossed...
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I find it often cute and clever, though some of them fall flat.
I also found the moo ones funny, but I am weird like that.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?