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Apple vs. FBI: Who Elected Tim Cook?
Fortune “We didn't elect Tim Cook to protect privacy,” writes Robert Levine in a Sunday New York Times op-ed piece about the San Bernardino stand-off between Apple AAPL -0.23% and the FBI. “That's what governments are for.” “But the current choice,” he ... Apple's FBI battle is just the beginning of a reality check for the tech sectorThe Guardian Apple v. FBI: Key Passages from the Justice Department's RebuttalWall Street Journal (blog) Feds Say Apple's Stand Against the FBI Is Just a PR StuntGizmodo Popular Mechanics -Engadget all 194 news articles » |
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San Bernardino Shooter's iCloud Password Reset With FBI Consent, Agency Says
ABC News The FBI released a statement late Saturday refuting a federal official who had said the agency was unaware the password was reset until after it had occurred on the iCloud account associated to Syed Rizwan Farook's iPhone. The official had said Friday ... Apple attorney: FBI order could 'destroy the iPhone as it exists' Los Angeles Times If FBI busts into seized iPhone, it could get non-iCloud data, like Telegram chatsArs Technica Common software would have let FBI unlock shooter's iPhoneWRAL.com Washington Post -San Jose Mercury News all 8,323 news articles » |
A prominent columnist on Sunday delivered the harshest attack to date against Egypt's president in the local media, saying that Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi presided over a "theocracy" that is no different from the Islamist-led government he overthrew in 2013.
February 21, 2016, 5:27 PM (IDT)
At least 22 people were killed in southern Damascus Sunday near the Shiite shrine of Sayeda Zeinab by two bomb cars and two suicide bombers. The bombs detonated outside a Shiite hospital near the shrine. Suicide attacks claimed by ISIS in the same district have killed 60 people. Sunday's explosions came just hours after a twin bomb attack in the city of Homs which killed at least 46 people.
Infamous CIA Double Agent Ames Finally Arrested
New Historian Aldrich Hazen Ames, along with his wife Rosario Ames, had made millions of dollars transferring secret information to the Soviet Union, playing a massive role in the collapse of the CIA's spy network in the USSR. “They died because this warped ... |
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu visited the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, Feb. 15 in efforts to bolster the regional anti-Russian bloc.
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Ex-CIA director offers leadership tips
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One Ukrainian soldier has been killed in clashes between Russia-backed separatists and government forces in the east of the country, Ukraine's military says.
'Provisional agreement' reached on ceasefire in Syria, John Kerry says by Associated Press in Amman
US secretary of state declined to go into the details of the agreement but said he’s in talk with Russia – but foreign minister seemed to stop short of announcement
A “provisional agreement” on a ceasefire in Syria has been reached between the US and Russia, theUS Secretary of State John Kerry said on Sunday as the country reeled from a series of deadly car bombs in Syria’s two biggest cities that left more than 100 dead.
In Homs, twin car bombs killed at least 57 people on Sunday, and explosions hit parts of the capital Damascus killing a further 50 and wounding 200. The attacks on both cities were claimed by the Islamic State (Isis) terror group.
A strange peace has swept across the oil industry with the news that Saudi Arabia and Russia, staunch rivals within the sector, reached an agreement last week to freeze oil output
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Russians Still Get News from TV But Trust It Far Less than They Did, Gudkov Says by paul goble (noreply@blogger.com)
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Staunton, February 21 – More than eight out of ten Russians still get their news from television, but the share of them trusting that source has fallen from 79 percent in 2008 to only 41 percent now, a trend that is leading ever more of them to rely on family members and close friends as they did in the late Soviet period, according to Lev Gudkov
In an excerpt from an article that will appear in the next issue of “Russian Politics and Law,” the director of the Levada Center polling agency, says that the falloff in trust in government-influenced or controlled media is likely to continue well into the future thus reducing the ability of the powers that be to shift the country’s direction (slon.ru/posts/64280).
As a result of regime actions, he continues, the public media have become in the “strongest” way “sterilized,” with “the possibilities of presenting group interests, exchanging opinions and the rationalization of what is taking place becoming ever more limited and society driven into the state of artificial unanimity.
This deficit is being filled, Gudkov continues, by “’kitchen’ conversations or ‘discussions over a cigarette.” According to polls, “friends,, relatives, acquaintances and colleagues” now “stand in second place after television” as a source for information, far exceeding the Internet and social networks.
“This phenomenon,” the sociologist argues, “can be considered as a sign of a return to the forms of late-Soviet interpersonal informal communication” and thus is “a symptom of the radical reduction of the role and significance of expert and specialized knowledge in the formation of public opinion.”
Gudkov also points out that the growing diversity of the Russian media scene is deceptive. Today, Russians can get 69 channels on their home television as opposed to only ten in 2009, but in reality, “the population watches only 12 or 13 of these; and 70 percent of them simply rebroadcast” what is on the main government channels.
The same thing is true, he says, of the Internet. There are thousands of sites, but Russians turn to only three to seven sites on a regular basis; and only 0.5 percent to two percent of the adult population “turns to foreign sources of information.”
Approximately half of the population (45-55 percent) have mixed feelings about both government and non-government outlets, ranging from “almost narcotic dependence” on outlets with Russians watching more than four hours of TV a day to doubts about the reliability of information provided by this source.
“Only 9-11 percent of Russians express complete trust in Russian television,” Gudkov says, although he notes that during the anti-Western media campaign, “this indicator rose to 35 percent.” But those who completely distrust television are fewer, only five to eight percent of the population and consisting of the more educated segment of the population.
In other comments, Gutkov says that in recent years Russians are reading fewer newspapers with only 13 percent doing so now compared to 37 percent earlier and journals – two percent now compared to eight percent earlier. The main reason, he suggests, is the decline in incomes and the picture of reality television imposes.
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Папа Франциск призвал к отмене смертной казни во всем мире
BBC Russian Папа римский Франциск призвал всех мировых лидеров продемонстрировать свое мужество и не приводить в этом году в исполнение приговоры к смертной казни. Выступая перед паломниками на площади Св. Петра в Риме, папа сказал, что заповедь "не убий" относится ко всем - как к ... Папа римский призвал запретить смертную казнь во всем миреРосбалт.RU Папа Римский Франциск призвал запретить смертную казнь во всем миреРадиостанция ЭХО МОСКВЫ Не убий: Папа Франциск призвал всех отменить смертную казньВести.Ru НТВ.ru-Татар-информ Все похожие статьи: 85 » |
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Saudi Prince: Muslim Nations Must Lead in Counterterrorism
New York Times ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — A prominent Saudi prince said Sunday that Muslim countries need to take the lead in fighting terrorism and that a recently announced Islamic counterterrorism alliance of 34 nations should have been created sooner. Saudi-Iran dialogue needed — Al Faisal gulfnews.com all 4 news articles » |
A prominent Saudi prince says Muslim countries need to take the lead on fighting terrorism.
Blackened beams could be seen at a planned refugee centre in Bautzen on Sunday, after the building was burnt down in a suspected case of arson. The blaze, in a former hotel that is currently being converted into a refugee shelter, began in the early hours of Sunday morning. Police say that some onlookers cheered and celebrated as 70 fire workers worked to bring the fire under control
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Up to 30 drunken onlookers clapped and cheered as a former hotel, which was being converted into an asylum seeker refuge, caught alight in Bautzen, Saxony
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Israeli Military Says It Shot Dead Palestinian Attackerby webdesk@voanews.com (Associated Press)
The Israeli military said it shot dead a Palestinian who tried to stab a soldier at a West Bank checkpoint on Sunday, after security forces managed to disarm and apprehend two separate potential attackers in a non-lethal manner. The incidents came amid a domestic debate over how to best to counter a five-month bout of near-daily Palestinian attacks. Israel's military chief last week angered right-wing nationalists by urging soldiers to use only "necessary force" in...
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AMMAN (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Sunday he and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov had reached a provisional agreement on terms of a cessation of hostilities in Syria and the sides were closer to a ceasefire than ever before.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Bernie Sanders came to Washington as an activist, not a legislator....
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