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German journalist faces three years prison over reporting from eastern Ukraine

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British geologist jailed for 15 years in Iraq for smuggling artefacts

British geologist jailed for 15 years in Iraq for smuggling artefacts

Verdict in case of Jim Fitton, 66, shocks court in Baghdad after family argued he had no criminal intent

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How to Murder Your Husband writer found guilty of murdering husband | Portland | The Guardian

How to Murder Your Husband writer found guilty of murdering husband

Portland jury finds Nancy Crampton Brophy guilty of killing chef Daniel Brophy in June 2018

A jury in the US city of Portland, Oregon, has convicted a self-published romance novelist who wrote an essay titled How to Murder Your Husband of fatally shooting her husband.

The 12-person jury found Nancy Crampton Brophy, 71, guilty of second-degree murder on Wednesday after deliberating for two days over Daniel Brophy’s death, according to reports.

Brophy, a 63-year-old chef, was killed on 2 June 2018 as he prepared for work at the Oregon Culinary Institute in south-west Portland.

Crampton Brophy showed no visible reaction to the verdict in the crowded Multnomah county courtroom. Lisa Maxfield, one of her lawyers, said the defence team would appeal against the decision.

The defendant’s 2011 how-to treatise detailed various options for committing an untraceable killing, written in the form of a brainstorming exercise for writers.

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What Is the Global Public-Private Partnership

What is the global public private partnership and what does it mean for the rest of us? Discover the history of the G3P.

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Our Psychopath Problem

How humanity's survival depends on our readiness to acknowledge and address the 'world ego'.

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Opinion: The data are clear: The boys are not all right

Here is one of the biggest problems facing America: Boys and men across all regions and ethnic groups have been failing, both absolutely and relatively, for years. This is catastrophic for our country.

The data are clear. Boys are more than twice as likely as girls to be diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; are five times as likely to spend time in juvenile detention; and are less likely to finish high school.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t get better when boys become adults. Men now make up only 40.5 percent of college students. Male community college enrollment declined by 14.7 percent in 2020 alone, compared with 6.8 percent for women. Median wages for men have declined since 1990 in real terms. Roughly one-third of men are either unemployed or out of the workforce. More U.S. men ages 18 to 34 are now living with their parents than with romantic partners.

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Dreams are a precious resource. Don’t let advertisers hack them | Aeon Essays

Dream-hacking techniques can help us create, heal and have fun. They could also become tools of commercial manipulation

Dream hacking: How companies are planting ads into our subconscious

Multiple marketing studies are openly testing new ways to alter and drive purchasing behaviour through sleep and dream hacking. The American Marketing Association New York’s 2021 Future of Marketing study found that, of more than 400 marketers from firms across the United States, 77 per cent of them aim to deploy dream-tech for advertising in the next three years. The commercial, for-profit use of dream incubation – the presentation of stimuli before or during sleep to affect dream content – is rapidly becoming a reality.

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Growing beyond the advertising model to achieve democracy’s true potential

How sustainable the advertising model really is? Can’t we really think of anything better to provide free goods and services?

How sustainable the advertising model really is? Can’t we really think of anything better to provide free goods and services?

Do we keep sacrificing our political power on the altar of convenience, or should we build our own decentralized social network services framework to prevent control and manipulation from hostile parties?

The blockchain opened a range of new options to build decentralized institutions we can trust. Some solutions are already working. We’ll see radical alternatives emerge over the upcoming years, it’s up to us to make the best of it.

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"I like the customer interaction a lot, and I miss that," he said. "I think we have been lacking that a lot with, you know, with the Netflix and that. You know, you're not out talking to people about their opinions on films."

Preen also misses the variety of films found in video rental stores and is focusing on giving people access to movies that aren't available on popular streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime, which are increasingly focused on producing original content instead of paying to license older titles.

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Elderly serial killer Harvey Marcelin faces new murder charge

83-year-old Harvey Marcelin allegedly kept her latest victim's severed leg in her wheelchair as she went shopping in NYC.

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L'assalto a Venezia, il comandante dei vigili: «Un delirio!». Più di 120mila turisti, residenti prigionieri, Piazzale Roma in tilt

VENEZIA - «Un delirio». E' categorico il comandante dei vigili di Venezia Marco Agostini nel definire il forte afflusso turistico che si è r

Tourism in Venezia

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Institutions like The New York Times blame “incel forums” for suicides. They’re ignoring the deeper problem.

Suicide Forums in a Dying Society — Countere Magazine

Institutions like The New York Times blame “incel forums” for suicides. They’re ignoring the deeper problem. Last December, The New Yor

According to the CDC, the suicide rate increased 30% between 2000 and 2020, from 10.4 to 13.5 suicides per 100,000 people. There were 1.2 million attempts alone in 2020. These facts have nothing to do with suicide forums and everything to do with sociopolitical conditions. In his seminal study Suicide (1897), the French sociologist Émile Durkheim explained that suicide is a social phenomenon; individual cases reflect the state of society. Durkheim argued that variations in the suicide rate are caused by disruptions to the social equilibrium (financial crises, decadence, wars), which form pathological social states like egoism and anomie (moral deregulation leading to unchecked passions.) In egoism, the individual personality surmounts the collective personality, causing egoistic suicide due to excessive individuation and detachment from society. From his analysis of egoistic suicide, Durkheim concludes that “suicide varies inversely with the degree of integration of the social groups of which the individual forms a part.” 

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‘Why did they do this to us?’: Bucha’s survivors come out of hiding

‘Why did they do this to us?’: Bucha’s survivors come out of hiding

With the Russians gone, the town’s inhabitants are trying to make sense of the carnage and horror they witnessed

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https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202203/1257224.shtml

'Vampires' in the war: US warmongers feeding on the bloody turbulence in other countries

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Russia scrambles to copy banned social media platforms

‘Embarrassing’: Russia scrambles to copy banned social media platforms

Rossgram, a substitute for Instagram, mocked as Russian PM announces policy of ignoring copyright

Putin on Wednesday also ordered government agencies to cease orders of foreign operating systems, which will include popular products from Microsoft, in the “interests of securing the technological independence and safety of Russia’s critical information infrastructure”. Russian government offices were ordered to stop using foreign operating systems by 2025.

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Russia’s war in Ukraine: complete guide in maps, video and pictures

Russia’s war in Ukraine: complete guide in maps, video and pictures

Where is fighting happening and how did we get here?

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Ukrainian journalist Oleh Baturyn missing since March 12 - Committee to Protect Journalists

Paris, March 17, 2022 – Anyone with information about the whereabouts of missing journalist Oleh Baturyn must come forward and aid in findin