Topic: POLITIK - on August 1, 2016 at 4:36:00 PM CEST
The Psychopathology of Donald Trump
Does Donald Trump only say crazy things, or does he say crazy things because he actually is crazy? In a speech delivered on the third day of the Democratic National Convention, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg openly questioned the GOP candidate’s sanity on prime-time television. More importantly, if less sensationally, the issue of Trump’s emotional stability has also been raised by a growing number of influential and highly respected mental-health practitioners. They have done so out of a sense of urgency, even in the face of a code of conduct promulgated by the American Psychiatric Association that cautions psychiatrists against making public statements about public figures whom they have not formally evaluated.
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Topic: SECURITY - on July 31, 2016 at 12:13:00 PM CEST
Wikileaks tiefer Fall: Antisemitismus, Terrorclips, Doxxing
Die Plattform verliert immer weiter an Zustimmung, auch weil es zusehends um die Person Julian Assange geht In den vergangenen zwei Wochen durfte sich die Enthüllungsplattform Wikileaks über eine starke Präsenz in den Medien freuen. Die Plattform publizierte interne E-Mails der US-Demokraten und der türkischen Regierungspartei AKP, die auf breites Echo in sozialen Medien stießen. Doch beide Enthüllungen hatten einen Haken: Die E-Mails der AKP waren inhaltlich banal, enthielten jedoch Links auf Wählerverzeichnisse mit heiklen Daten von Bürgern. Wikileaks hatte so effektiv Millionen Türken "gedoxxt", wie der Fachausdruck für den Verrat persönlicher Informationen im Netz heißt. Das führte etwa zu einer wütenden Anklage der Forscherin und Kolumnistin Zeynep Tufekci, die Wikileaks gar vorwarf, "Türkinnen in Gefahr zu bringen".
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Topic: War and Peace - on July 31, 2016 at 12:11:00 PM CEST
Article — From the August 1941 issue Who Goes Nazi?
It is an interesting and somewhat macabre parlor game to play at a large gathering of one’s acquaintances: to speculate who in a showdown would go Nazi. By now, I think I know. I have gone through the experience many times—in Germany, in Austria, and in France. I have come to know the types: the born Nazis, the Nazis whom democracy itself has created, the certain-to-be fellow-travelers. And I also know those who never, under any conceivable circumstances, would become Nazis. It is preposterous to think that they are divided by any racial characteristics. Germans may be more susceptible to Nazism than most people, but I doubt it. Jews are barred out, but it is an arbitrary ruling. I know lots of Jews who are born Nazis and many others who would heil Hitler tomorrow morning if given a chance. There are Jews who have repudiated their own ancestors in order to become “Honorary Aryans and Nazis”; there are full-blooded Jews who have enthusiastically entered Hitler’s secret service. Nazism has nothing to do with race and nationality. It appeals to a certain type of mind.
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Topic: SECURITY - on July 31, 2016 at 12:09:00 PM CEST
The Details About the CIA's Deal With Amazon
A $600 million computing cloud built by an outside company is a "radical departure" for the risk-averse intelligence community.
The intelligence community is about to get the equivalent of an adrenaline shot to the chest. This summer, a $600 million computing cloud developed by Amazon Web Services for the Central Intelligence Agency over the past year will begin servicing all 17 agencies that make up the intelligence community. If the technology plays out as officials envision, it will usher in a new era of cooperation and coordination, allowing agencies to share information and services much more easily and avoid the kind of intelligence gaps that preceded the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. For the first time, agencies within the intelligence community will be able to order a variety of on-demand computing and analytic services from the CIA and National Security Agency. What’s more, they’ll only pay for what they use.
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Topic: DRUGS - on July 31, 2016 at 12:07:00 PM CEST
Marijuana Snake Oil: Six Marijuana Scams To Avoid
As a cannabis business attorney, I see and hear more than my share of kooky and downright bad business pitches. Bad business ideas are one thing, but total scams and rip-offs are another. Unfortunately, like any new and high growth industry with complicated and constantly changing rules and regulations, the marijuana industry is chalk full of scammers and con artists.
The following six marijuana scams are the ones I am seeing most often of late.
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Topic: DRUGS - on July 30, 2016 at 6:02:00 PM CEST
Wie der typische Cannabis-Konsument tickt und kauft
Der US-Markt für legale Marihuana-Produkte floriert. Der typische Konsument ist überwiegend männlich, Frauen nehmen lieber Cookies als Gras Wien – In den USA gibt es eine bekanntlich eine zunehmende Akzeptanz für die medizinische Nutzung von Marihuana. Außerdem ist der Konsum von Marihuana als Freizeitdroge in den Bundesstaaten Colorado, Alaska und Washington mittlerweile legal. Im Herbst stimmen auch die Wähler im bevölkerungsreichsten Bundesstaat Kalifornien über eine entsprechende Gesetzesänderung ab.
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Topic: SECURITY - on July 30, 2016 at 5:56:00 PM CEST
Snowden vs Assange
What’s gotten into Edward Snowden? The National Security Agency leaker is criticizing his fellow disseminaters of classified information at WikiLeaks, tweeting that “their hostility to even modest curation is a mistake” and suggesting that some truly damaging material shouldn’t be leaked indiscriminately to the public. Given Snowden’s past collaboration with the group, his words are being treated as surprising by some in the press — evidence of dissension within the largely unified ranks of international transparency crusaders. “Even Edward Snowden disagrees with WikiLeaks,” marvels Fast Company. “Is WikiLeaks alienating its friends,” asks Bloomberg, calling the former NSA contractor “a natural ally … if there’s ever been one.”
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Topic: War and Peace - on July 30, 2016 at 5:07:00 PM CEST
Wild Turkey With H-Bombs: Failed Coup Heightens Calls for
An explosive cocktail of political instability mixed with 90 U.S. H-bombs raises the specter of accidental or suicidal nuclear detonation in or near Turkey. This risk was brought into sharp relief by the attempted military coup there in mid-July. In June, I warned that the Pentagon’s 180 thermonuclear B61 gravity bombs deployed across Europe – 50 to 90 are at Incirlik Air Force Base in Turkey – are too dangerous deploy in the age of terrorism. Turkey’s B61s are 100 miles from Islamic State territory, a war zone. Now the Los Angeles Times, the Japan Times, Foreign Policy, the San Antonio Express News and other major papers see the Pentagon’s outsourced B61s in Turkey as a hot topic.
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Topic: AUSTRIA - on July 30, 2016 at 5:06:00 PM CEST
Austria can benefit from Big Data solutions
Big Data solutions can contribute significantly to Austrian public administrations, a working group concludes in a report published in June. Benefits include improved quality of life, finding optimal business locations, and offering better guidance to citizens. The report by the Big Data working group aims to help public administration when considering Big Data solutions, providing legal, economic and technical context.
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Topic: FUN - on July 30, 2016 at 5:02:00 PM CEST
Terry Jones Talks About Playing the Enormous Mr. Creosote in Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life
The online film series “Eyes on Cinema” posted a really wonderful 1983 interview in which Terry Jones spoke in detail about the manner in which make-up artist Chris Tucker turned him into morbidly obese Mr. Creosote in the rather hilariously disturbing “Part VI: Autumn Years” segment of iconic Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life.
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Topic: DRUGS - on July 30, 2016 at 5:00:00 PM CEST
Who Buys Legal Weed?
Marijuana pop culture has traditionally centered around the young male smoker and his high times. But the legalization movement has made marijuana more accessible than ever been before, and cannabis’s application as a painkiller is particularly appealing to senior citizens. So what does the typical, recreational marijuana user look like today? And how do the preferences and spending habits of groups like young men and senior citizens differ?
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Topic: DRUGS - on July 29, 2016 at 5:26:00 PM CEST
The FDA says it’s ok to drink weed
First marijuana pills, now a drink: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have approved the liquid version of dronabinol, which is essentially a man-made version of the substance's main ingredient tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). And now that THC is available in pill and liquid form, some are hoping that we're finally on our way toward universal medical marijuana use.
Per the FDA's approval earlier this month, Syndros is classified under the Controlled Substances Act as Schedule III, indicating accepted medical use and low to moderate potential for abuse, likely because it won’t give users the same high as the plant form. Still, it could help people suffering from a variety of chronic ailments, like cancer and multiple sclerosis, to experience some (legal) relief.
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