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>>125846
Non-German here. What's the difference between a christian democrat and a social democrat?

>>125855
Christian democrats are moderate rightists.

Social democrats are moderate leftists.

>>125860
So it seems like Merkel is considered leftist among her own party? I never understood how she stays in power for so long.

Latest is that the attacker and attacked policeman are both alive but injured. At least 8 people injured and one killed on Westminster Bridge by the attacker's car, a silver 4x4.
Bomb squad are investigating the attacker's car.
Unconfirmed reports that one person hit by the car on Westminster Bridge fell into the River Thames.
Westminster and Whitehall are in lockdown and civil servants are being kept in their offices. Likewise for Parliament, the London Eye, etc.
Westminster Underground station is closed.

KEEP LONDON SAFE!

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/turkey-erdogan-germany-netherlands-warning-europeans-not-walk-safely-a7642941.html

>The tricorder could play an essential role in medically underserved countries and communities. Millions of patients could relay essential information quickly to health professionals many miles away.

>So the challenge is to invent a device that will do all this - and weigh less than 3kg.

>Harris recruited his siblings for the competition.

>George, a network engineer and Gus, a urologist. Sister Julia, the only Harris sibling who didn't study engineering at Drexel University - where their father, Harry, long taught the subject - also signed on. A fifth sibling, Maria, decided not to participate.)

>Now, four years later, after many all-nighters - or, to be honest, all-weekenders - the team has finished. Its device, DxtER, is named not after the television serial killer but is a mash-up of DX (the medical abbreviation for diagnosis), "tricorder" and ER.

>"This could have imploded at any time," says Harris, a genial, calm fellow, precisely the sort of doc you want reading your vitals in the ER. "We had no delusions that we would get this far."

>The XPrize required finalists to ship more than 65 kits to California for testing. A million dollars of the US$10m prize has been dispersed to help teams continue - a good thing for Harris' team, whose members have personally invested US$500,000 and have been awarded US$425,000.

>The winning team stands to collect US$6 million and the runner-up US$2 million. An additional US$1m will be awarded for the tricorder that most accurately charts vitals. (To make matters more complicated, if one tricorder far outperforms the other in testing, the judges might award the entire prize to one group.)

>The two finalists have developed medical devices that may transform personal health care, the XPrize's Campany says, audacity being among the competition's goals.The global market is large enough to support both tricorders, both team leaders say, and the companies that ultimately manufacture the products stand to make millions.
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>She provided moral support and sustenance, though the truth is that Basil and his colleagues didn't eat much. The team downed pots of coffee during their marathon design sessions.

>"Of course, Basil's brilliant," Angela says. "He's always interested in doing something else." She recalls him once musing, "Maybe I'll apply to the space program." He was perfectly serious.

>Along with the Harris siblings were Phil Charron, who describes himself as "the user-experience guy," who has known Harris since school; Andy Singer, "the finance and health policy guy," Harris' buddy since kindergarten; and Ed Hepler, "the hardware guy," an electrical engineer and the last to join the team, which was seriously in need of a hardware guy.

>"Basil's the eternal optimist," Singer says. To keep the team going, his mantra was "We've never been closer."

>"The great thing about this device is it's in the patient's hands," Harris says. "You can manage your own health, get your own vital signs. It will empower you to find out if you have strep throat." His device already has the capability of diagnosing 34 conditions, far more than the XPrize guidelines.

>Harris recalls when they first started, back in 2013. "It was intimidating because there were all these groups being backed by large corporations," he says. "But we were always thinking beyond the XPrize. We've met our objectives. We've made something worthwhile."

>The merging of private business interest with government affairs — aspects of which have previously been reported by Bloomberg, but which The New York Times has found further evidence of — has generated protests from ethics experts in Washington, as well as certain Senate Democrats. They consider Mr. Icahn’s dual roles perhaps the most troubling conflict of interest to emerge so far in the new administration.

>“This is a mile out of bounds by any standard,” said Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode Island, who, along with other Democrats, is sending a letter Monday to Mr. Icahn, the Office of Government Ethics and the Department of Justice to object to Mr. Icahn’s dual roles, and to ask new questions. “Were the shoe on the other foot, Republicans would be having fits about any Obama relationship like this.”

>Mr. Icahn, 81, in a series of interviews in the last week, was unapologetic. He said he was not subject to conflict of interest rules because he is an informal, unpaid adviser to Mr. Trump, not an official government employee.

>“I’m not making any policy,” Mr. Icahn said. “I am only giving my opinion.”

>Kelly Love, a White House spokeswoman, also dismissed the criticism. She pointed to the December news release when Mr. Trump first named Mr. Icahn “special adviser to the president” on regulatory matters. “He is simply a private citizen whose opinion the president respects and whom the president speaks with from time to time,” Ms. Love said in a written statement. “Mr. Icahn does not have a position with the administration nor a policy-making role.”

>Both compared Mr. Icahn’s role to corporate executives serving on federal advisory commissions, who are expected to argue for changes in federal policies while remaining corporate officers. But CVR Energy, of which Mr. Icahn owns 82 percent, is just one entry on a growing list of potential conflicts that have surfaced since his December appointment.
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>Both compared Mr. Icahn’s role to corporate executives serving on federal advisory commissions, who are expected to argue for changes in federal policies while remaining corporate officers. But CVR Energy, of which Mr. Icahn owns 82 percent, is just one entry on a growing list of potential conflicts that have surfaced since his December appointment.

>Mr. Icahn has provided input to the White House on the selection of the new head of the Securities and Exchange Commission. He is a major investor in companies that have recently been targeted for enforcement action or investigation by the S.E.C., including CVR Energy and Herbalife, the nutritional beverage company, of which he owned about 24 percent at the end of last year.

>Mr. Icahn has also pressed Freeport-McMoRan, the global mining company he helps run as a result of his large investment, to more aggressively fight back against the government of Indonesia, the company’s chief executive, Richard Adkerson, said in an interview Friday. Indonesia is challenging Freeport’s contract to extract gold and copper from one of the world’s largest mines.

>The company, as that pressure from Mr. Icahn and other investors has intensified, has been asking for help from the State Department, Commerce Department and White House, Mr. Adkerson said.

>Mr. Icahn is “very concerned about what is happening in Indonesia,” Mr. Adkerson told reporters in Indonesia last month, adding that he was “confident the U.S. government will want to see Freeport treated fairly.” (Both Mr. Adkerson and Mr. Icahn said that Mr. Icahn, who controls two of eight seats on the company’s board, had not directly intervened with the Trump administration on this matter.)
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>And while the Trump administration imposed a broad freeze on the adoption of new regulations — holding up dozens of new rules affecting everything from hybrid cars to furniture manufacturing — it surprised industry officials by allowing one Internal Revenue Service rule to go into effect in late January. The rule expands a special kind of oil and gas business organization with tax advantages, known as a master limited partnership, that Mr. Icahn cited as a primary reason he first made his big investment in CVR Energy back in 2012.

>What is clear is that Mr. Icahn has an unusual position in the Trump administration. During his campaign, Mr. Trump repeatedly boasted of his ties to Mr. Icahn — calling him “my very dear friend” and citing Mr. Icahn’s support as a sign that “many of the great businesspeople are endorsing me.”

>His fortune, $16.6 billion, according to a Forbes estimate, is greater than those of all the other members of Mr. Trump’s cabinet combined, with investments in companies as diverse as Hertz, Xerox and PayPal, as well as A.I.G., the multinational insurance company, and most recently Bristol-Myers Squibb, the global biopharmaceutical company.

>Mr. Trump’s cabinet appointees, many of whom are very rich, had to undergo stringent reviews by the Office of Government Ethics that negotiated personalized asset sales agreements for each of them to help them avoid conflicts of interest. But Mr. Icahn is not required to take any such steps, given that he is an unpaid adviser rather than a formal government employee.

>Mr. Icahn has long fought against the ethanol rule, known more formally as the Renewable Fuel Standard. In August he wrote an unusually personal 11-page letter to Gina McCarthy, who served as President Barack Obama’s head of the Environmental Protection Agency, and one of Ms. McCarthy’s top deputies, with an all-capital-letter headline: “PROGRAM IS BROKEN AND NEEDS TO BE FIXED IMMEDIATELY.”
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It's only because they think people will crucify them for breaking their promises.


I don't think the pot will save them though, it'll probably just make things worse for them.
Ehhhhhhhhhhheheheheheheh

>>125836
This.
And it's easier to fool a nation when the populace is in a THC induced haze.

>>125965
>easier for the government to fool people who smoke weed
Yes that's exactly why everyone I know who smokes weed hates the government

>source is 60 minutes
>posts a Daily Caller misinfo piece
Why don't you post the original source instead of the clickbait merchant version, OP?

Oh, I see why now. After searching this, all that comes up is right wing media like pjmedia and counterjihad report. The FBI allegations are an anonymous source and it's based on a 60 minutes episode that aired months ago. So it's literally O'Keefe-tier nothingness based on editing.

It sounds like certain someones are lashing out at CBSnews for their recent hitpiece on Hannity.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/03/27/ted-koppel-calmly-explains-sean-hannity-why-hes-bad-america/99680636/

>>126067
>It sounds like certain someones are lashing out at CBSnews for their recent hitpiece on Hannity.

Is that why I recently saw at least one other thread OP with the same sort of tone and sources bashing 60 minutes? Seems kinda petty to me, but amusing regardless.

>>126067
>
> Don’t like the evidence?
> Just disregard the source and declare victory!

>“I’ll be glad to check on that,” Spicer said during Monday’s briefing. “I’m not sure that that’s how that works.”

>In fact, individuals who enter White House grounds needs to submit a form with specific personal information and need to be cleared by White House staffers -- members of Congress included. And it wouldn’t be a difficult task for Spicer to figure out who cleared Nunes.

>“Doesn’t explain who cleared him into WH -- requires a WH staffer. Would take any WH staffer ~120 secs to check records to find the answer,” Ned Price, President Obama’s former national security spokesman, tweeted during Spicer’s briefing.

>“Who cleared Nunes & “non-WH” source onto compound? Who allowed them access to SCIF? Who provided computer log-on credentials,” Price added.

>Nunes’ source would have also been cleared before entering the premise.

>The Obama administration maintained a visitors log that was made publicly available on the White House website. The record of every individual who came onto the complex was updated every 90 to 120 days. This has not been implemented by the Trump administration.

>“We are reviewing that now,” Spicer said of continuing the Obama administration’s policy of providing the visitors log to the public.

Republicans have a weak bench when it comes to committee chairmen and their public gaffes. Issa, Gowdy, Chaffitz, and now Nunes. Way to keep that democrat fundraising going, fellas.

>After seeing his picture in the news, Jackson turned himself in at a police station. He was armed with two knives and told officers he had tossed the sword in a trash bin in Washington Square Park, officials said. It was later recovered.

>Investigators said they were trying to determine exactly what drove Jackson to violence. They planned to search his laptop and phone and interviewed friends and family.

>His attorney, Sam Talkin, said if the allegations are anywhere close to being true, "then we're going to address the obvious psychological issues that are present in this case."

>Jackson was in the Army from 2009 to 2012 and worked as an intelligence analyst, the Army said. Deployed in Afghanistan in 2010-11, he earned several medals and attained the rank of specialist.

>Dr. Scott Krugman, chairman of pediatrics at Franklin Square Medical Center in Baltimore and a friend of the family, said the allegations were out of character with his family's beliefs and the way he was raised.

>Jackson's parents, David and Patricia Jackson, are active members of Towson Presbyterian Church and have two other sons. Patricia Jackson is a former teacher of English-language students in the Baltimore County school system and worked for Well for the Journey, a Christian nonprofit organization that helps people "integrate spirituality into their daily lives in a safe, inclusive space."

>"They're liberal as liberal can be," Krugman said. "We were at a dinner party with them and everybody was complaining about the current administration and very open about rights for everybody and making sure we're not excluding immigrants, everything like that. I'm just beyond shocked right now."

>In a statement, the Jackson family extended condolences to Caughman's family and said it was "shocked, horrified and heartbroken by this tragedy."

>Caughman had lived for 18 years in a former hotel in Manhattan, sharing the building with tenants who were part of a temporary-housing program. Caughman was not part of the program; he was a tenant already living in the century-old, seven-story building.

>He was "extremely respectful" of his neighbors and building workers, said Svein Jorgensen, the program's executive director. "He was a great tenant and someone that anyone would be glad to have as a neighbor." He added: "He was a gentleman."

>Caughman displayed photos of himself with celebrities on his Twitter page, where he also showed that he was proud to have voted in the election. He struck up a longtime Twitter relationship with Shari Headley, the actress who played Eddie Murphy's love interest in "Coming to America."

>After his death, she tweeted: "My heart is heavy typing this. Timothy Caughman was a fan of mine since 1991. He only spread LOVE. His murder was senseless."

>His family was upset that he was initially portrayed in some news reports as a homeless man with a criminal past. He had a criminal history, but the most recent offense was a low-level pot arrest in 2002.

>His cousin Seth Peek told The New York Times that in the 1970s and '80s, Caughman worked with young people in Queens as part of a youth program.

>"He wasn't just a vagrant person collecting bottles," Peek said. "That was not just what his life was. He went to college, and he was concerned with young people in the neighborhood."

>>125481
>/pol/smoker wearing a long black coat attacks a man from behind with a sword
They've become a a real life version of jokes about edgy autists, Jesus Christ
>Nothin personell... kid

Why even design an escalator with a double speed reverse capability?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PLvdmifDSk

>>125905
Why do these accidents always happen in China

>>125975
Communism.

http://news.sky.com/watch-live

>>123641
Sky have got bored with it.

It's on BBC now.

>>123641
>>123642

TV news doesn't have the time to show it all day.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2017/mar/20/donald-trump-campaign-russia-fbi-nsa-live

>For many policy makers, that includes opening up services like WhatsApp and Telegram, a rival messaging tool, to national intelligence agencies when they are investigating terrorist activities.

>“We do want them to recognize that they have a responsibility to engage with government, to engage with law enforcement agencies when there is a terrorist situation,” Ms. Rudd told the BBC on Sunday, referring to tech companies. “They cannot get away with saying we are in a different situation. They are not.”

>Ms. Rudd’s demands are expected to be repeated in person at the session with the tech executives, although no further details of the meeting have been released.

>Lena Pietsch, a Facebook spokeswoman, said in an email: “We are horrified by the attack carried out in London,” adding that the company was “cooperating with law enforcement.”

>The move by British lawmakers is the latest effort in Europe to police how internet giants operate online. This month, a German government minister, Heiko Maas, said that he would propose new legislation that could fine tech companies around $50 million if they failed to stop hate speech being spread on digital platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Google’s YouTube.

>A number of high-profile brands and advertisers have recently pulled their marketing from these online services after their ads were displayed next to potential hate speech.

>Officials in Britain, however, are going a step further. And by demanding that intelligence agencies be allowed to read encrypted messages, Ms. Rudd is reiterating long-held plans to gain more control over digital services.
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>Last year, the country passed legislation giving law enforcement greater powers to make telecommunications and technology companies hand over digital information relating to intelligence operations. The law also required tech companies to bypass encryption protocols, where possible, to aid ongoing investigations.

>In the United States, the authorities have made similar demands. The F.B.I. asked Apple to unlock the iPhone used by one of the attackers who killed 14 people in San Bernardino, Calif., in December 2015. Apple resisted, and the F.B.I. later said it had found a way to unlock the phone without the company’s help.

>Tech companies say they cannot hand over such information because internet messages are sent through so-called end-to-end encryption.

>This technology scrambles messages to make them indecipherable to anyone but their intended recipient. It also makes messages unreadable when they pass through an app’s server, meaning companies do not have the ability to provide the information to law enforcement even if they wanted to.

>If such technology is weakened, campaigners say, governments and hackers could gain access to encrypted messages, reducing people’s ability to communicate privately online.

>“Compelling companies to put back doors into encrypted services would make millions of ordinary people less secure online,” said Jim Killock, executive director of Open Rights Group, a British nonprofit. “We all rely on encryption to protect our ability to communicate, shop and bank safely.”

related:
https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/27/social-media-firms-facing-fresh-political-pressure-after-london-terror-attack/

>“He keeps talking about ‘minors,’ but there’s one,” Goldstein said.

>Authorities last week, however, acknowledged the possibility of additional victims.

>Lajiness, who remains free after posting $50,000 in cash bond, appeared at last week’s hearing alongside her husband.

>Lajiness, according to her Facebook profile, was a former esthetician at a salon in Monroe who studied at UNLV and the Michigan College of Beauty.

>“In life nothing is guaranteed,” Lajiness wrote in a post from last month of her and a man believed to be her husband. “So finding someone who knows all of your flaws, weaknesses and mistakes and still thinks you’re amazing is something to hold onto and never take for granted!”

>Lajiness’ attorney, David Goldstein
>David Goldstein
>Goldstein
>(((Goldstein)))

>>124120
Niiice.

>>125109
Not news.

>>125113
Have some entertainment instead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B63ahmTAesM

>>125109
So tell me....
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... was she blackface all this time?

Amazing, now that they're willing to pay up, can we finally just call it what it was, namely genocide, instead of using vague descriptions of "bad times" because we're afraid we'll get sued by Namibia for war crimes or whatever.
Though if you ask me we should just let them and then let all the "Reichsbürger" pay for it, seeing as they're the only remaining citizens of the Empire.

>>124870
a reichsburger sounds delicious right now, are there any good rechsburger joints in america?

>>124850
>housing projects

Not like last time, honest.

>The decision by major U.S. brands to yank ads, first reported by the Times in the U.K., indicates that an advertiser boycott that began overseas is quickly spreading.

>Google is attempting to quell a growing furor by the British government and major brands in the U.K., and now the U.S., angered over the placement of online ads alongside offensive or extremist content — such as videos by white supremacists or the Islamic State. In response, earlier this week Google that it would pull online ads from controversial content, give brands more control over where their ads appear and would deploy more people to enforce its ad policies.

>So far, Google has not done enough to reassure advertisers, says Pivotal Research Group analyst Brian Wieser, who downgraded Google parent company Alphabet's stock on Monday. He had warned the U.K. boycott could have global repercussions for Google.

>More than 250 organizations including the British government, Toyota and McDonald’s have stopped advertising on YouTube in the U.K., according to The Times.

>Wieser says these advertiser defections are just the first shoe to drop in the United States, and other advertisers will likely follow.

>"Google’s response to the matter has been insufficient so far, and it’s not clear that they’ll develop one that is sufficient soon enough to deter others," Wieser said.

>That was the case for Johnson & Johnson, which said Wednesday it had decided to pause all YouTube advertising globally "to ensure our product advertising does not appear on channels that promote offensive content."
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>"We will continue to take every measure to ensure our brand advertising is consistent with our brand values," the company said in a statement.

>That's easier said than done in the digital age. Brands often don't know where their online ads are running. That's because much of the ad buying in question, programmatic ad buying, is computerized, with machines making the decision on where ads should appear on the Internet, all with very little human oversight.

>That kind of ad buying "has gotten ahead of the advertising industry’s checks-and-balances," Enterprise Holdings spokeswoman Laura Bryant said. The car rental company also pulled its ads from Google and YouTube.

>"There is no doubt there are serious flaws that need to be addressed," Bryant said in an emailed statement. "As a result, we have temporarily halted all YouTube advertising, while executives at Google, YouTube and our own media agencies focus on alleviating these risks and concerns going forward."

>An investigation by The Times in the U.K. found that companies, university and nonprofits had their ads appear on hate websites and YouTube videos created by supporters of terror groups such as the Islamic State. The ads on popular videos likely generated significant income for extremists, according to the newspaper.

>For example, an ad on YouTube for the new Mercedes E-Class ran next to an ISIL video praising jihad that has been viewed more than 115,000 times, according to the Times. Luxury holiday company Sandals Resorts had an ad run next to a video for al-Shabaab, the East African jihadist group affiliated with al- Qaeda, the investigation found. After The Times informed Google, the company removed some of the videos. Companies that have pulled their ads from Google over the controversy include Volkswagen and L'Oreal SA.
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>Advertisers who announced they had pulled their business on Wednesday said they were working with Google to resolve the situation.

>GSK, the world's sixth-largest pharmaceutical company, said the placement of its brand next to extremist content "is completely unacceptable to us."

>But, GSK said it was encouraged by the steps Google has taken in recent days, and said it would continue to work with Google "to make further progress in developing adequate safeguards to ensure that advertisers are not placed in this position."

>Wieser says Google must adopt a zero tolerance policy for putting brands in "unsafe environments when they place ads."

>With the changes announced late Monday, advertisers on YouTube and on Google's ad system that places ads across the web will be able to exclude websites and videos that are "potentially objectionable," will have greater latitude to decide where they want their ads to appear and will have more "visibility" on where their ads are running.

>"We know advertisers don’t want their ads next to content that doesn’t align with their values," Philipp Schindler, Google’s chief business officer, wrote in a blog post about the changes. "So starting today, we’re taking a tougher stance on hateful, offensive and derogatory content."

>Why is this such a significant issue? "Brand safety" has emerged as possibly the biggest issue facing the advertising industry, Wieser says. For large marketers, even one ad placed next to extremist content can cause harm to a brand, he said.

>Google reviews content flagged by users. Four hundred hours of video is uploaded every minute to YouTube, Google says, making it tough to police. Some 98% of content flagged on YouTube is reviewed within 24 hours, Google says.