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WikiLeaks' Big Tuesday Announcement Will Now Take Place Via Video (thehill.com) 380

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.
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WikiLeaks' Big Tuesday Announcement Will Now Take Place Via Video

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  • Why is this here? (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 02, 2016 @09:51PM (#53001745)

    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.

    • Re: (Score:3, Funny)

      by Anonymous Coward

      This is going to be a video link ON THE INTERNET, Mr. Coward. Do you not realize the importance of such an achievement?

    • by alternative_right ( 4678499 ) on Sunday October 02, 2016 @10:19PM (#53001865) Homepage Journal

      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.

      • by Powercntrl ( 458442 ) on Sunday October 02, 2016 @11:20PM (#53002093) Homepage

        We are all looking forward to whatever "October Surprise" he can cook up for The Establishment Candidate.

        Hillary may be part of the establishment, but Trump is a textbook example of the type of people the establishment works for. Trump supporters are like a bunch of cows who'd rather be herded by a slaughterhouse owner, solely because they've had bad experiences with farmers.

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  • by chill ( 34294 ) on Sunday October 02, 2016 @09:58PM (#53001777) Journal

    The primary security concern is the balcony not being big enough or strong enough to support Julian's ego.

    • Re:Security Concerns (Score:4, Interesting)

      by LynnwoodRooster ( 966895 ) on Sunday October 02, 2016 @10:12PM (#53001831) Journal
      Well, with Hillary talking about drone strikes on Assange [truepundit.com], staying indoors may be the smartest thing to do...
      • Re: (Score:3, Insightful)

        by Lisandro ( 799651 )

        Hey, it's on the internet. It must be true.

        • by Rei ( 128717 )

          What, you don't trust reporting that only traces back to "truepundit.com" and their anonymous "sources"? Come on, next you're going to tell me that I can't lose 10 pounds in two weeks by following this one weird trick.

    • by 93 Escort Wagon ( 326346 ) on Sunday October 02, 2016 @10:37PM (#53001941)

      The primary security concern is the balcony not being big enough or strong enough to support Julian's ego.

      Of course with a video stream, h.264 compression might have some difficulties handling that as well.

    • by Rei ( 128717 )

      Given that Julian already consented once to have the press conference on the balcony, we're entitled to have the press conference on the balcony, and if that means moving him outside while he sleeps, then so be it.

    • by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 02, 2016 @11:31PM (#53002145)

      .. or your sense of denial.

      DNC staffers getting shot in the back in public parks following leaks of DNC emails, and no one steals their wallet.... and no one asks questions.

      And to top it all off, the DNC has the unbridled chutzpah to call it all "conspiracy theory"... after they got busted *conspiring* to keep Sanders out of the race!

      We need to retire the term "consipiracy theory". It doesn't mean what they think it means.

      • Re: (Score:2, Interesting)

        There is so much wrong with this post in light of its being modded up. First, as every /.er but you and the moduppers know: believing "sic hoc ergo propter hoc" is a hell of a way to go through life. A DNC staffer was murdered, but there is no reason to believe that he was in a position to know anything about the leaks—let alone that he was murdered because of them. Assange himself has refused to confirm that the murdered staffer was in any way connected to the leaks—and this would be a yuuuu

    • by Mal-2 ( 675116 )

      The primary security concern is the balcony not being big enough or strong enough to support Julian's ego.

      They really have nothing to fear. After all, hot air is a lifting gas.

    • by dohzer ( 867770 )

      Pfft. Everyone know's ego is a lighter-than-air gas.
      That's why so much hot air keeps escaping from his mouth.
      The real issue is the strength of the tie-down points.

    • Assange is dead. The "video announcement" will be a simulation created by the Russians base on their earlier prototype "max headroom"
  • by alternative_right ( 4678499 ) on Sunday October 02, 2016 @10:16PM (#53001849) Homepage Journal

    Shot himself 13 times in the back. Hillary Clinton unvailable for comment and does not recall anyway.

  • by ErichTheRed ( 39327 ) on Sunday October 02, 2016 @10:32PM (#53001921)

    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.

    • by Okian Warrior ( 537106 ) on Sunday October 02, 2016 @11:05PM (#53002031) Homepage Journal

      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!

    • Re: (Score:2, Insightful)

      by Anonymous Coward

      The law doesn't matter if you're rich and powerful? We're supposed to hand over the presidency to a corrupt, irresponsible, greedy career politician who's working hard behind the scenes to dick over regular plebs like us all because Trump called someone fat 20 years ago (or whatever the trumped-up (lol) scandal of the moment is)?

      People haven't been accepting this state of affairs for the last 3000 years because they were "grown up enough" to accept it, it was because the powerful had sufficient control ove

    • Oh, that's easy:

      I shouted out "Who killed the Kennedys?"
      When after all, it was Hil-la-ry

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      • by ScentCone ( 795499 ) on Monday October 03, 2016 @10:41AM (#53004109)

        The "email issue" continues to be a nothing to see. At worst they show a slight lack of misjudgements over technical issues.

        Sure, other than the part where she deliberately chose to avoid federal record keeping laws, deleted federal records while under subpoena, and handled highly sensitive data (WAY more than merely "classified") with a recklessness that can and HAS put people in prison many times, even just this year. Lack of judgement? Her poor judgement was in her foolishly thinking she wouldn't get caught. But she did correctly judge that the same administration that has prosecuted other people for FAR less severe violations would protect her from the same consequences. Which is exactly what they've done, repeatedly.

        The Clinton Foundation is a highly respected charity

        Yes, highly respected by the people who give it money in order to buy influence with the Clintons. Highly respected by the family and friends of the Clintons who get fat paychecks, consulting contracts, and perks from the foundation as it spends well over 90% of the money it rakes in on paychecks for those favored employees and on things like travel perks and "administrative" expenses. Less than 6% of the huge pile of cash they take in from foreign dictators and civil rights abusers goes towards any sort of charity activity in any form. But since you're a fan of hers, and are clearly willing to overlook her serial lies and parade of corruption, I can see why you'd consider that arrangement to be "highly respectable." Sure, of course.

        The DNC's behavior in the primaries was seriously bad, and I'm disgusted Clinton rewarded DWS with a job in her campaign, but frankly it's the DNC, not Clinton or her campaign.

        Your attempt to draw a distinction between these two entities is so cute. Darling.

        But thus far, what's been thrown at Clinton has been stupid, seen only as "damaging" if you hate Clinton so much you'd latch onto a spelling mistake as evidence she's unfit for government.

        No. What she's thrown at herself is so damaging that if she didn't have the active protection of the Obama administration she would be, like other people who have done far, far less, already indicted and likely convicted of multiple federal felonies.

  • Why is he still in the Ecuadorian Embassy? Didn't the whole investigation get scrapped?

    • by Rei ( 128717 )

      No. Nothing has ever been "scrapped"; every court hearing (and there've been many), both in the UK and Sweden, at all levels (including the Supreme Courts of both countries), has gone against him. What did happen was that the statute of limitations on the lesser charges ran out. The statute of limitations on the rape charge doesn't run out until 2020.

  • Hopefully (Score:4, Insightful)

    by dohzer ( 867770 ) on Sunday October 02, 2016 @11:06PM (#53002043)

    Hopefully they don't reveal Trump's tax return, because that will make Hillary look like an idiot for paying tax. Genius
    Genius Trump Trump Genius. Winning.
    #Genius. #Winning. #Gyna.

    • Re:Hopefully (Score:5, Insightful)

      by ScentCone ( 795499 ) on Monday October 03, 2016 @12:43AM (#53002359)
      Actually, check out Hillary's 2015 tax return, page 17. She's using exactly the same carried loss maneuver to avoid paying taxes. Just like the New York Times does.
      • Re:Hopefully (Score:5, Informative)

        by Mashiki ( 184564 ) <mashiki&gmail,com> on Monday October 03, 2016 @03:54AM (#53002695) Homepage

        For the lazy [zerohedge.com] and on the NYT [breitbart.com].

      • by T.E.D. ( 34228 )

        Actually, check out Hillary's 2015 tax return, page 17.

        Now check out that same line on her opponent's 2015 tax return....oh wait, you can't.

        I really don't understand why wikileaks is concentrating on the candidate who is hiding less.

        • Now check out that same line on her opponent's 2015 tax return....oh wait, you can't.

          Right, because his 2015 tax returns ARE NOT COMPLETE. The IRS has placed them into that status by choosing to audit them, and like ANY lawyer would tell you or anyone else, he's keeping those NOT YET CONSIDERED FILED taxes on the table between him and the IRS until all of those thousands of pages of documents concerning his involvement in hundreds of business ventures are considered - BY THE IRS - to be complete and settled. All of which you know, but you're pretending you don't so you can deflect on the t

    • Not a Trump supporter but few large corporations pay lots of taxes. Many pay almost none sheltering themselves in shell corporations and oversea tax havens. But typical fashion the orange one made it about himself during the debate. If he was smart he would have spun it to something along the lines of "all smart large business owners pay no taxes and that's something I could reform better than anyone else". Anyine know if there is a 4th party canadate worth voting for? Because I cannot bring myself to
  • 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.

  • by dfenstrate ( 202098 ) <dfenstrate&gmail,com> on Sunday October 02, 2016 @11:23PM (#53002105)

    ... 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.

    • And the reason the 'D' team is they don't funnel money to their supporters in so many ways, they use dump trucks to deliver it to favored entities at a new rate of an additional $1 trillion per year. over the time when the Bushes were President.

    • Re: (Score:3, Insightful)

      by mvdwege ( 243851 )

      Have you even considered that what you think is 'everyone' might be wrong?

  • 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.

  • Let me guess: Assange send a team of experts to Hawaii, and they can't BELIEVE what they are finding.

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