As I have tried to show, modern writing at its worst does not consist in picking out words for the sake of their meaning and inventing images in order to make the meaning clearer. It consists in gumming together long strips of words which have already been set in order by someone else, and making the results presentable by sheer humbug.

Die Vorstellung, dass Opposition immer staats- und kapitalismuskritisch sein muss, stimmt schon längst nicht mehr. Aber das wäre unter Umständen ein Thema für den nächsten Kongress der Gesellschaft für Neue Psychologie. Das in einem ideologiekritischen Brief befürchtete Abtriften des Kongresses in Antiamerikanismus und Verschwörungstheorien hat sich beim diesjährigen Programm zum Glück nicht feststellen lassen.

Some of the biggest names in the U.S. entertainment industry have expressed a recent interest in a topic that’s seemingly far away from their core business: shutting down online prostitution. Disney, for instance, recently wrote to key U.S. senators expressing their support for SESTA, a bill that was originally aimed at sex traffickers. For its part, 20th Century Fox told the same senators that anyone doing business online “has a civic responsibility to help stem illicit and illegal activity.”

Late last year, the bill the entertainment companies supported morphed from SESTA into FOSTA, and then into a kind of Frankenstein bill that combines the worst aspects of both. The bill still does nothing to catch or punish traffickers, or provide help to victims of sex trafficking.

The old truism is in play again with the FBI‘s renewed CryptoWar: if X is outlawed, only criminals will have X. In this case, it‘s secure encryption. The FBI may not be trying to get encryption banned, but it does want it weakened. No backdoors, claims FBI director Chris Wray, just holes for the government to use at its pleasure. So, if the FBI gets it way, the only truly secure encryption will be in the hands of criminals… exactly the sort of people the FBI claims it needs weakened encryption to catch.

Die Aufklärungsbemühungen ergeben inzwischen aber auch Hinweise auf Vertuschungen durch die Generalstaatsanwaltschaft von Berlin, durch die Bundesanwaltschaft und durch das Bundeskriminalamt.

Die Opposition hatte Listhaug mit einem Misstrauensvotum stürzen wollen, weil sie der sozialdemokratischen Arbeiterpartei auf Facebook vorgeworfen hatte, die Rechte von Terroristen wichtiger zu nehmen als die Sicherheit des Landes.

President Trump has been busy airing his frustration with the special counsel‘s investigation into Russian meddling. The president has also hired a new attorney who has been a tough critic of the FBI‘s handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation. CBS News chief White House correspondent Major Garrett has the latest.

It‘s true that my role did change. I‘m currently spending more time exploring emerging security risks and working on election security.

Facebook hat laut „New York Times“ Sicherheitschef Alex Stamos entmachtet. Er wollte Russlands Propaganda für Donald Trump schon 2016 öffentlich machen – doch Mark Zuckerbergs Top-Management war anderer Meinung.

The impending exit of that executive — Alex Stamos, Facebook’s chief information security officer — reflects heightened leadership tension at the top of the social network. Much of the internal disagreement is rooted in how much Facebook should publicly share about how nation states misused the platform and debate over organizational changes in the run-up to the 2018 midterm elections, according to current and former employees briefed on the matter.

Es gehe dabei um Vorwürfe, wonach für Sarkozys Wahlkampf 2007 Gelder aus Libyen geflossen sein sollen, berichtete die französische Nachrichtenagentur AFP heute unter Berufung auf eine namentlich nicht genannte Quelle.

But in the meantime it has extended the Canadian military commitment to lead the Role 2 Medical Treatment Facility in Erbil, Iraq, until March 31, 2019. This extension is in response to a request from the United States, the Department of National Defence stated Monday.

The Japan Society for Cult Prevention and Recovery (JSCPR) demanded Monday that the state refrain from executing 12 former members of doomsday cult group Aum Shinrikyo, not including the group’s guru leader, amid growing speculation that recent transfers of seven of them could indicate their hanging was imminent.

Miyama, a pseudonym she uses to protect her privacy when speaking to the media, was a graphic designer when she discovered the cult through one of Asahara’s books. She was among the droves of young Japanese — many from wealthy, well-educated backgrounds — sickened and alienated by the consumerist ethos of the time that was fueled by the bubble economy. She found peace in the teachings and a sense of spiritual connection with Aum followers, and especially, toward its charismatic guru.(…)
The self-employed 54-year-old, who also goes by an alias, said the widely held notion of the cult being a dangerous army of mind-controlled zealots assembling around a half-blind, babbling madman seem far removed from the mostly calm, stoic lifestyle rank-and-file members like himself experienced during much of the cult’s existence.