Warum Markus Wilhelm nicht nach Eisenstadt fährt.
Das oben Gesagte gilt auch für den Österreichischen Journalisten Club (ÖJC), dem die Marke Gatterer-Preis gehört und der sich mit dem Tamtam rund herum mediale Aufmerksamkeit verschafft und zwar gleich dreimal jedes Jahr: bei der Ausschreibung, bei der Bekanntgabe des Preisträgers und bei der Verleihung. Der ÖJC will mich laut Begründung der Jury ja „im gegenständlichen Fall“ auszeichnen für „Berichterstattung und Aufdeckung“ in der Causa Erl. Wo war dieser feine Club, als mir in genau dieser Causa achtzehn Zivilklagen mit einem Streitwert jenseits der fünf-, sechs-, siebenhunderttausend Euro zugestellt wurden? Ein klitzekleines bisschen Solidarität damals, ein Alzerl nur, ein Pipp oder von mir aus auch ein Papp wären mehr wert gewesen, als der Zinnober mit dem Gatterer-Preis. Von einem Journalisten-Club, der mich als Journalisten ansieht, wäre vielleicht zu erwarten, dass er sich angesichts einer solchen Klagsflut zumindest räuspert, wenn schon nicht äußert.
MSA – Manning, Snowden, Assange.
Interview with Edward Snowden.
Did Russia interfere with elections? Almost certainly. But do the United States interfere in elections? Of course. They've been doing it for the last 50 years. Any country bigger than Iceland is going to interfere in every crucial election, and they're going to deny it every time, because this is what intelligence services do. This is explicitly why covert operations and influence divisions are created, and their purpose as an instrument of national power is to ask: How can we influence the world in a direction that improves our standing relative to all the other countries?
Vienna, Berlin, Leipsic.
Leipsic, Delaware
Vergessene Geheimsprache Rotwelsch.
Als Harvard-Professor Martin Puchner zu der Sprache Rotwelsch recherchiert, stößt er auf Familiengeheimnisse und Abgründe der Geschichte.
HBO Drama Revives a National Trauma for Israel.
It was the extraordinary coldbloodedness of the murder that made it true-crime movie material in the first place: a Palestinian teenager snatched off a Jerusalem street by Orthodox Jews, choked, bludgeoned and burned to death in a forest at dawn.
But “Our Boys,” a 10-part series that started this month on HBO, is under attack in Israel largely because of that singularity, amid an ideologically and emotionally charged battle over the politics of bereavement and victimhood.
Immigration panic: how the west fell for manufactured rage.
It is an Old World idea. While the colonisers ruled over the colonies – and the slave owners in the New World over the slaves – they also began to find it essential to distinguish themselves from their subject peoples, to hold themselves morally, intellectually and civilisationally superior to them. Otherwise, where would the colonial enterprise end?
Native American name controversy.
(…) the United States government responded by proposing the use of the term "Native American", to recognize the primacy of indigenous peoples' tenure in the nation. The term has met with only partial acceptance. Other naming conventions have been proposed and used, but none are accepted by all indigenous groups. Typically, each name has a particular audience and political or cultural connotation, and regional usage varies.
The option to save an anonymous CodePen is no more.
As of today, login is required to save any content on CodePen.
I know it’s not a good idea to rely on third-party infrastructure, however for my students trying out HTML and CSS with CodePen now became a wee bit uncomfortable. And I totally understand the rationale behind this move. The reasons (idiots like spammers, scammers, abusers) are why we cannot have nice things.
The Sensitivity Gene.
“(…) infants born with an especially excitable amygdala (i.e. short-allele children) would…grow up to be children who were more likely to feel vigilant when meeting new people”. In other words, high-reactivity may predispose one to guarded and reclusive behavior.