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WikiLeaks Releases Paid Clinton Speech Excerpts, And Threatens To Expose Google (dailymail.co.uk)
An anonymous Slashdot reader quotes the Independent:
Wikileaks has dumped thousands of emails from Hillary Clinton campaign chair John Podesta, which includes apparent excerpts from Ms Clinton's paid, closed-door speeches to Wall Street executives after leaving her position as Secretary of State. In the excerpts, flagged in a 25 January email, Ms Clinton apparently suggested that Wall Street insiders were best qualified to regulate the banking industry and also included her apparent admission of the need for money from banking executives for political fundraising...
"Earlier today, the US government removed any reasonable doubt that the Kremlin has weaponized WikiLeaks to meddle in our election and benefit Donald Trump's candidacy," said Clinton campaign spokesperson Glen Caplin. "We are not going to confirm the authenticity of stolen documents released by Julian Assange who has made no secret of his desire to damage Hillary Clinton." Slashdot reader schwit1 quotes the Daily Mail's article about what's coming up next: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange promised to release information on subjects including the U.S. election and Google [and] warned that the so called 'October Surprise' will expose Google. Assange did not reveal what type of information would be leaked about the tech giant, but his 2014 book could provide a clue. In it, he wrote: "(Eric) Schmidt's tenure as CEO saw Google integrate with the shadiest of U.S. power structures..."
"Earlier today, the US government removed any reasonable doubt that the Kremlin has weaponized WikiLeaks to meddle in our election and benefit Donald Trump's candidacy," said Clinton campaign spokesperson Glen Caplin. "We are not going to confirm the authenticity of stolen documents released by Julian Assange who has made no secret of his desire to damage Hillary Clinton." Slashdot reader schwit1 quotes the Daily Mail's article about what's coming up next: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange promised to release information on subjects including the U.S. election and Google [and] warned that the so called 'October Surprise' will expose Google. Assange did not reveal what type of information would be leaked about the tech giant, but his 2014 book could provide a clue. In it, he wrote: "(Eric) Schmidt's tenure as CEO saw Google integrate with the shadiest of U.S. power structures..."
Trump's skeletons are usually out there already for all to see, some even with flesh still on them. I don't think he tries to hide much. As far as email leaks, it may be that Trump and his team simply don't use email.
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quote>These Wikileaks releases do seem pretty one-sided.
No worries. The mainstream media is already releasing every nasty thing on Trump they can dig up. Someone has to release nasty stuff on Hillary too, since it sure as shit isn't going to come from CNN.
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By doing in small batches he mitigates exactly what happened yesterday. The media/CTR was ready with the 'pussy' drop. He is making them use up everything they have.
Why would Assange have emails from Trump? No matter what a piece of shit he is, he does not have a disastrous 30 year career in politics and did not collude with the RNC to overthrow the democratic process.
He's only a rapist if you redefine rape, which in itself would be raping the English language. Sure he's a sexist scumbag but he's no worse than any of his predecessors or his opponent, both in context of his personality and history.
You can also turn the phrase around depending on who's side you're on:
Quick! Dump some more 15yo audio tapes! We need to distract people before they realize they're considering voting for a criminal!
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Seriously, I'm getting sick of these shenanigans from Wikileaks. Cut the fucking sensationalism and hype; just release what they have and let people decide what to make of it. I am not opposed to exposing corruption and unethical practices, but let the people decide how to interpret whatever information comes out. If you have information about corruption involving the election, get it out there as soon as possible so people have time to digest whatever gets released. The role of Wikileaks is to release information about corruption, but not really to influence how the public reacts to it. I expect such behavior from traditional investigative reporters because the traditional media outlets pay their bills through advertising. It's also why they turn to clickbait in order to inflate ad impressions. It's sketchy, but at least I can understand why they do what they do. Furthermore, investigative reporters are often trying to influence people to a particular position, so there's a definite bias to the reportong. Wikileaks has no excuse for this type of behavior. Don't make threats, spew hype, or withhold information. Just fucking release what you have!
Funny how the media acts like Donald Trump's tax returns should be open records, but when it comes to important speeches Hillary Clinton delivered to Wall Street, they're cool with her treating those like state secrets.
How much Donald Trump paid in taxes last year or whatever crude shit he said lately isn't going to have nearly as much of an impact on the day-to-day lives of most Americans as the secret backroom promises that Hillary Clinton has made to the rich and powerful corporate powers on Wall Street. At least Trump bragging about trying to bang some married woman isn't going to gut any labor laws, make him beholden to the corporatocracy, or cost any of us commoners our jobs.
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We're coming up on the "2-minute warning" of the elections.
It's when the parties take out the big guns (Republicans) and long knives (Democrats), hoping to get something into the collective consciousness before the election. It usually starts 3 weeks out, but this election has been particularly polarizing.
This weekend has been particularly entertaining. Trump made some locker-room comments eleven years ago, which is causing everyone to grab their pearls and faint. People are falling over themselves pretending that it makes them "sick to their stomach"(*).
Meanwhile, the wikileaks dump shows Clinton admitting a year ago that her "public policy" and "private policy" are different, how she wants world trade with completely open borders (after denying it publicly), and wants to institute gun control by executive order.
And no one seems to have noticed that Trump has completely owned the media for the weekend up to this point!
Seriously - count the number of Trump articles on Google's news page. He's playing them like a violin.
The current headline reads: "GOP consumed by crisis" about Trump, and "Emails Reveal Clinton's Mixed Relationship With Wall Street" about Clinton.
The next few weeks are going to be *highly* entertaining!
(*) As far as I can tell, the general public has responded with "yeah - so what?" about the comments. Everyone seems to recognize that men talk dirty about women to each other, and women do the same about men. It makes all the media pundits who claim "makes me sick to my stomach" seem laughably disingenuous.
No, it's not brainwashed. It's a predictable outcome of how the system is architected. First past the post voting naturally turns into two party systems, and in two party systems strategic voting is inevitable where you vote against a candidate and not for a candidate. The system is working as it was designed to.
Hillary admits that campaigns are expensive "I wish it weren't so but I don't know how to change it" and therefore she will need campaign contributions to win! What a calling admission.
And to also admit that maybe professionals who are experts in a field would be necessary to help regulate the industry! Next she is going to say that maybe a computer scientist or white hat hacker should help write cyber defense policy.
Hillary also admitted she has a "public policy" and "private policy", wants unfettered world trade with open borders, and wants to enact gun control via [presidential] executive order.
Feel free to distract people with non-controversial stuff, but realize who you're helping by doing that.
"Earlier today, the US government removed any reasonable doubt that the Kremlin has weaponized WikiLeaks to meddle in our election and benefit Donald Trump's candidacy," said Clinton campaign spokesperson Glen Caplin. "We are not going to confirm the authenticity of stolen documents released by Julian Assange who has made no secret of his desire to damage Hillary Clinton."
Interpretation: It's all true, but the people revealing it are mean and want to hurt us so you should ignore whatever it is they've revealed. See ad hominem attack.
These Wikileaks releases do seem pretty one-sided. Is it just a function of what they do and don't have (it's surprising they didn't have that Trump recording)? But it's hard to believe the timing is completely coincidental, given how it seems to happen soon after Trump either says something particularly stupid or we learn about something damning from his past. However it's not surprising there's lots of skeletons in either candidate's closet... but again, why doesn't Assange have any of Trump's?
Problem is, from what I've seen over the past few months on Slashdot - it's obviously going to be hard to have a rational discussion on these questions here right now. People are way too ready to overlook their preferred candidate's foibles.
Part of it is the fact that Wikileaks is dependent on leakers. If someone gave them Trump's tax returns they'd probably post them, but no one has so they can't.
As for the pro-Russia angle, I suspect Assange realizes that Russia is their source but he still needs the data. And since he's dependent on Russia for the leaks he's fairly amendable to their requests on how to release them.
It may be a poor long term strategy though, the more Assange allows himself and Wikileaks to become associated with Trump and Russia the more other leakers will turn to alternate publishers.
I am a bit surprised by the lack of actual bombshells in the Clinton/DNC leaks however. My first response to this leak in particular is to wonder why Clinton didn't release the transcripts in the first place.
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The Republicans are hardly exempt from such deals.
I never said they were. That's one of the reasons Trump is so popular. People see him as a political outsider who isn't completely beholden to Wall Street in the same way that every mainstream Republican is. And he has been playing that message up too, bragging that his wealth and outsider status will keep him from becoming a corporate whore like every other politician.
Now whether or not Trump actually MEANS what he says is another story. I would say there is about a 70% chance that he'll end up being a corporate whore just like every other politician once he's actually elected. Still, that's better than the 100% chance with Hillary Clinton. And in an election where we're once again having the choose between the lesser of two evils, you go with the best odds.
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"At least Trump bragging about trying to bang some married woman isn't going to gut any labor laws, make him beholden to the corporatocracy, or cost any of us commoners our jobs."
His tax policy will. The policy he's laid out will not only cost us jobs and sink us further in debt but are obviously tailored to enriching the rich.
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http://www.politifact.com/trut...
Tabloid crap aside, I don't understand how some one from the oligarch class got "common man" status but it's completely clear that he's all about enriching himself and his fellow oligarchs. Clinton is at least politics as usual for the Democrats.
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The only thing the media is guilty of is perpetrating the pretense that Trump had a chance, mainly because daily headlines that read "Trump still doomed" wouldn't sell papers. The GOP knew he couldn't win, many state Republicans knew he couldn't win, and yet he had this core of supporters that carried him through.
Well now it's to the point where incumbent Republican senators need to save their own asses, so the time has come to cut him loose.
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you haven't been paying attention. Hilary, like her Husband Bill, is economically conservative. This is what that means. I'll still vote for her because she's the most progressive candidate we've got. American is _filled_ with economic conservatives and they vote. As a progressive I live in that world and it's a world of compromises. Do I want more? Hell yeah. But I'm an adult. I'm old enough to know what a compromise is.
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While Trump made some vulgar comments, Bill Clinton was *actually* sexually harassing women. And his wife was attacking any and all women who spoke up about it. I'm much more bothered by what Bill and Hillary *did* than what Trump *said*.
This is a nonsense claim on his part. People like him are addicted to money and power. The vast majority of us common folk could live amazingly happy lives off the mere interest of 10 million dollars (probably a lot less). He didn't keep pursuing wealth for any other reason than that he wants the power that comes with it. Who do you think some one like that is going to want to deal with, the common person or our affluent power brokers?
Your ratios are backwards. At least Clinton is coming from a party that almost elected Bernie Sanders. She at least has to try to look like she's trying to help the common person. Trump has gotten himself the nomination of our political party that in the last 30 years has made no effort to hide who they favor with their tax policy.
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You raped me five years ago!
There, now you're an alleged rapist, too. Why should we listen to anything you have to say?
Sure he's a sexist scumbag but he's no worse than any of his predecessors or his opponent, both in context of his personality and history.
Your logical fallacy is... Bandwagon.
No indication at all that Trump ever engaged in any kind of assault. Unless "and they let you " means that it is assault.
As for voting for a rapist. How about a person who keeps rapists out of jail and shields her rapist husband from reprisals to the point of her attacking the victims?
People see him as a political outsider who isn't completely beholden to Wall Street in the same way that every mainstream Republican is.
Which is ironic - because HE IS WALL STREET. He doesn't even bother to hide it. He doesn't just avoid paying taxes, he boasts about it. He is not beholden to the man behind the curtain - the curtain has been drawn back, and the guy behind it is Trump.
There may be a very, very, very tiny handful of Democratic (and Republican) politicians left out there who aren't complete corporate whores. But you can bet your sweet ass that Hillary Clinton is not, was never, and will never be among them.
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Of course Sanders never had a chance, becuase they rigged the election. They rigged the election because he has a good chance.
"There was no rigging."
There was plenty of obvious rigging if you had a criminal enough mind to look at it from a different angle. Calling the vote for Clinton during primaries before the votes were even counted halfway (Arizona, IIRC) exit polls, etc. all show signs of electoral fraud.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
You appear to be crediting the Founders with omniscience. Madison and others specifically opposed the development of parties at the time of the writing of the Constitution. It was not designed to result in a 2 party system; that's just how it worked out despite their best intentions.
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What is "influencing," though? The DNC leaks exposed what anyone with a half a brain has understand for a long time: our news media is just propaganda. We don't so much have state-run media as we have a media-run state. The same corporations that own the media own the politicians. So when the corporate media spreads political propaganda they're influencing the election. When WikiLeaks does it they're influencing the election. What's the difference?
We don't have a state-run media we have a media-run state.
First past the post can only lead to a two party system. Take a look at the US and realize that it has always been a two party system. The parties may change, but essentially that's what it is.
It's been about a century now that a candidate that wasn't from one of the two major parties came in second. We're not even talking about winning.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Trump didn't say just vulgar comments about women, he said he "grabbed them by the pussy" and forceably kissed them. He has also been married three times, divorced twice because of adultery and is probably cheating on his current wife now.
There is also a court case starting up about him raping a 13 year old girl. If that turns out to be true, we would face a possible impeachment of a President over a high crime. It doesn't matter if he couldn't be charged now due to the statutes of limitations.
Sanders never had a chance because he's a self-described socialist. "Socialism," whatever it is, is not compatible with the values and ideals of the American electorate. If Sanders had won the nomination, we would all witness the election of President Trump next month.
Speaking as a former Republican, my advice is to count yourself lucky and go vote for the candidate you have, rather than the one you wish you had.
Yup, Hildawg's got it so in the bag you don't even need to show up to vote.
We don't have a state-run media we have a media-run state.
Face it, asshole, you're[sic] chosen anti-SJW warrior has lost the election.
Most probably. How strange it is that sex is held to be so much more important than treason or nuclear annihilation. But sigh. Whatever works, just so long as bozo the clown ends up taking the proverbial walk of shame back down the sewer he crawled from.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
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This claim is promulgated only by lunatic fringe conspiracy sites such as rt.com and no credible "state department" source has ever been identified.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
The mainstream media is already releasing every nasty thing on Trump they can dig up. Someone has to release nasty stuff on Hillary too, since it sure as shit isn't going to come from CNN.
I keep hearing this phrase parroted about 'mainstream media' but what does that actually mean? Isn't Fox News the highest rating News in America? Therefore isn't Fox "the mainstream media"? I'm pretty sure they aren't sympathising with Hillary.
If you think CNN is biased then fair enough, call CNN biased. But when you say mainstream media is just sounds like kooky tin foil hat stuff. It's like saying everyone else is crazy. If it seems like everyone else is crazy, then maybe, just maybe it's you who is the crazy one?
Women are indeed perfectly capable of standing up for themselves.
The problem is that if women are being denigrated, abused, mistreated, etc., and men just stand by ... don't they become part of the problem?
Real men don't put up with other men abusing women. This is not at all the same thing as acting like the "protector" of women.
For someone who's not /really/ a democrat, he still seems to have done more to help the party platform long term than any of the current batch of (D) politicians it appears.
He's stumping hard for Hillary against Trump, kept his word that he would, and is loyally working hard with the party that supposedly he's not got anything to do with.
He asked for lots, got less, but the things he was fighting for Hillary's picked up and ran with. So I see that as a win.
I wish more politicians were not really a democrat as much as Sanders is.
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The only thing the media is guilty of is perpetrating the pretense that Trump had a chance
And yet the polls had him twice neck and neck with Clinton. Trump's only problem is that he opens his mouth. They should have taken him offline and put him in a box 4 months ago and left him there till election day. He may even have won. Trumps popularity rises quite steadily until there's a minor scandal after which he tries to justify himself and spectacularly implodes as a result. Quite frankly the fact he closed the gap to Clinton twice already was a good indication that he really had a chance, a chance that he blew each time, but a chance none the less.
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While he's no doubt a pig, "they let you do it" implies consent and you'd need to document lack of consent to prove anything more.
Thousands of women, every day, "let" their bosses, customers, and even random strangers on the street whistle, pinch and grope. That's not consent, it's exhaustion. It's not consent, it's powerlessness. It's not consent, it's expectation that a macho culture will dismiss 'boys being boys.' Sure, you can throw a fit every time some boy touches you, but that's a quick road to social outcast. Strangely, to invite 'inappropriate' touching is an equally quick road to slut-label.
The fact that DJT can't distinguish beating people up with his wealth and power from consent is exactly the problem.
Categorisation is really useful when you want to deal with aggregates rather than individual instances, but the catch is that you need to remember that you are making some assumptions.
You are correct in saying that there are two genders - for certain values of what 'gender' means. Gender is more than just a categorisation of biological sex - it also refers to social structures and identities (and yes, I'm aware that those social structures and identities grow out of and are closely linked with the biological). Even when considering the purely biological meaning, while most individuals in a population may be well defined as either male or female, not all will be.
You plead 'reality', but reality is not as binary as our approximations sometimes imply. Ignoring edge cases and exceptions because they form a small percentage of the group in question might be convenient, but when those exceptions are individuals who have to deal with social stigmas, discrimination or simply the unconscious assumptions that your post typifies perhaps convenience can bow to courtesy without it being labelled 'political correctness'.
This is not a new phenomenon. Historically, several cultures have had more than two genders with well defined social roles and positions.
You are reminding someone that there exists an approximation (that's useful and fits large samples of data quite well, but is still an approximation) and dismiss trying to discuss and deal with the exceptions, edge cases or less well-defined individuals as 'political correctness'. Yes, you are technically correct, but your post adds nothing. If you have a criticism about the position being taken by the GP, then make it.