Topic: POLITIK - on July 8, 2018 at 10:08:00 AM CEST
Der Volksmund spricht ...
Anfang Juli 2018 beschliesst die Österreichische Bundesregierung den 12h Arbeitstag. Das Volk jubelt.
(Dieses Foto entstand vor der Österreichischen Botschaft in Athen.)
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Topic: POLITIK - on January 19, 2017 at 5:47:00 PM CET
Your quick guide to Trump's inauguration
President-elect Donald Trump will soon be inaugurated as the 45th president of the United States. And you can guarantee the world will be watching. While Trump's swearing-in will take place on Friday, the ceremonial festivities start the day before and will continue into the weekend—if you count what's expected to be a historic protest, that is. No matter where you stand on the political spectrum or the incoming Trump administration, this is one event you'll likely be talking about for years to come. Here's everything you need to know to be part of the action, even if you aren't in Washington, D.C.
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Topic: POLITIK - on January 19, 2017 at 5:46:00 PM CET
Yes, science is political
Over the past few weeks, we’ve gotten notes from Verge Science readers wondering why news from the incoming Trump administration has seeped into our science coverage. I wasn’t surprised: it’s tempting to believe that science is apolitical. But science and politics are plainly related: science is the pursuit of knowledge, knowledge is power, and power is politics. The scientific method consists of generating a hypothesis, attempting to disprove the hypothesis through testing, and accumulating those tests to come up with shared knowledge. And that method also contains ideology: our observed, shared world is the real world. This ideology even has a name: empiricism. An incoming president who clearly picks and chooses facts to suit his own version of the world changes the relationship between science and culture, in potentially destructive ways.
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Topic: POLITIK - on January 16, 2017 at 5:31:00 PM CET
What you need to know about the ‘Trump dossier’
Months of inaction by the FBI forced former MI6 spy Christopher Steele to turn to ‘alternative’ media to publicise his allegations against President-elect Donald Trump. In the end, the allegations were published in the form of a ‘dossier’ by Buzzfeed. But there are more allegations to be examined. And there is still the unanswered question: is Trump a clear and present danger – not only to America, but to the entire world?
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Topic: POLITIK - on January 15, 2017 at 8:22:00 PM CET
CIA-Direktor Brennan greift Trump an
Geheimdienstchef: "Spontaneität ist nichts, was nationale Sicherheitsinteressen schützt" Washington – Der scheidende CIA-Direktor John Brennan hat den künftigen US-Präsidenten Donald Trump wegen dessen Kritik an den Geheimdiensten angegriffen. Wenige Tage vor der Amtseinführung von Trump warnte Brennan den Republikaner am Sonntag in einem Interview mit dem Sender "Fox News", Russland in Sachen Hacker-Angriffe nicht zu schnell freizusprechen.
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Topic: POLITIK - on January 15, 2017 at 6:33:00 PM CET
After Nazi comparison, CIA chief warns Trump to watch what he says
Outgoing CIA Director John Brennan on Sunday issued a stern parting rebuke to Republican Donald Trump days before he assumes the US presidency, advising him not to absolve Russia for its recent actions and warning him to watch what he says. Brennan's comments, in an interview on "Fox News Sunday," laid bare the simmering tensions between the president-elect and the intelligence community he has criticized and is on the verge of commanding.
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Topic: POLITIK - on January 15, 2017 at 11:40:00 AM CET
Here are 10 'fake news' stories Trump has pushed as real
President-elect Donald Trump is not a fan of “fake news.” But you'd be excused for thinking he is. The soon-to-be president in his first press conference of 2017 on Wednesday admonished the media for reporting on a widely disputed and still unconfirmed memo that alleges Russia held compromising information on Trump. “It's all fake news. It's phony stuff. It didn't happen. And it was gotten by opponents of ours, as you know, because you reported it and so did many of the other people,” Trump said. “It was a group of opponents that got together—sick people—and they put that crap together.”
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Topic: POLITIK - on January 15, 2017 at 11:38:00 AM CET
Trump's New Cyber-Security Advisor Runs a Very, Very Insecure Website
Yesterday, President-elect Donald Trump announced the appointment of former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani as his cyber security advisor concerning the US private sector. The news made headlines, mostly because Rudy Giuliani is the last person who someone would think to be qualified to handle "the cyber," and because nobody seemed to know what Giuliani's security firm actually does. The infosec community didn't take the news lightly, hoping to see someone with more expertise in that position. It also didn't took long for cyber-security experts around the world to find flaws in the website of Giuliani's security firm.
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Topic: POLITIK - on January 15, 2017 at 11:35:00 AM CET
Michael Moore Dubs Trump the 'Godfather' of Fake News, Urges Publishers Not to Back Down
"He himself was hiring investigators to support his fake news. He is the godfather of this decade's fake news."
Filmmaker Michael Moore appeared on MSNBC late Thursday to reflect on President-elect Trump's ongoing feud with the press. After calling CNN "fake news" and BuzzFeed "a failing pile of garbage," Moore called Trump's press conference performance "masterful." "As a director, it was a masterful performance, he owned the room he owned the day, this should be very distressing to everyone," Moore said.
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Topic: POLITIK - on January 12, 2017 at 11:41:00 AM CET
The top 8 most insane moments of Donald Trump’s press conference
President-elect Donald Trump had a lot of ground to cover in his first press conference in 167 days. Ahead of the already-scheduled Wednesday morning conference, BuzzFeed published an explosive dossier of unverified intelligence on Trump which alleged, among other things, that the Russians might have hard evidence showing him in some very compromising positions. Things did not get more tame from there. Here are just eight of the most batshit insane moments of Trump’s presser.
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Topic: POLITIK - on January 12, 2017 at 11:32:00 AM CET
Here's Obama's full farewell speech
Below is Obama's final, unedited speech as president: It’s good to be home. My fellow Americans, Michelle and I have been so touched by all the well-wishes we’ve received over the past few weeks. But tonight it’s my turn to say thanks. Whether we’ve seen eye-to-eye or rarely agreed at all, my conversations with you, the American people—in living rooms and schools; at farms and on factory floors; at diners and on distant outposts—are what have kept me honest, kept me inspired, and kept me going. Every day, I learned from you. You made me a better president, and you made me a better man.
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Topic: POLITIK - on January 11, 2017 at 5:26:00 PM CET
BuzzFeed publishes unsubstantiated Trump report, raising ethics questions
Site posted documents about his purported behaviour in Russia with a warning that they contained errors and were ‘unverified and potentially unverifiable’
BuzzFeed’s decision to publish an intelligence report filled with salacious and unsubstantiated claims about Donald Trump’s purported behaviour in Russia has triggered a political storm and debate over media ethics. The news website posted the unredacted documents on Tuesday, just 10 days before Trump’s inauguration, with a warning that the contents contained errors and were “unverified and potentially unverifiable”.
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