The Bribe Factory | Unaoil | Ahsani Family Oil Industry Corruption Scandal

A global bribery scheme that implicates leading Western multinationals and government officials has been exposed by the leak of confidential files in the oil industry.
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Why ISIS is winning the online propaganda war

The U.S. government has been unable to fight the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) on the one battlefield it currently commands: the Internet. For proof, look no further than the U.S. State Department’s August 2014 “Welcome to ‘Islamic State’ Land” YouTube video, a counterterrorism blunder nearly as inexcusable as the flawed intelligence reports that led to the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/sasky/why-isis-is-winning-the-online-propaganda-war

Texting Isn’t the First New Technology Thought to Impair Social Skills

New technologies often unsettle the way we relate to one another, of course. But social ruptures caused by texting have a strong echo in the arguments we had a hundred years ago. That’s when a newfangled appliance gave us a strange new way to contact one another en masse: the telephone.
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A Stanford professor thinks we'll stop having sex to make babies in the next 20 years

The majority of humans in developed countries will stop having sex to procreate within decades, a leading academic has predicted.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/JazzofAllTrades/a-stanford-professor-thinks-well-stop-having-sex-to-make-babies-in-the-next-20-years

Let a Pineapple Speak For You

The transmission of secret messages through codes or ciphers has throughout history often been a matter of life or death. One only needs to think of Mary Queen of Scots, who was beheaded for treason when her cipher was broken, or Alan Turing, who, by creating a machine to decode messages encoded by the Enigma, saved millions of lives in the Second World War.
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The strange case of a Nazi who became an Israeli hitman

On September 11, 1962, a German scientist vanished. The basic facts were simple: Heinz Krug had been at his office, and he never came home. The only other salient detail known to police in Munich was that Krug commuted to Cairo frequently. He was one of dozens of Nazi rocket experts who had been hired by Egypt to develop advanced weapons for that country. HaBoker, a now defunct Israeli newspaper, surprisingly claimed to have the explanation...
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The Anomaly of Barbarism

The brutality of Islamist terrorism has many precedents.
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