Starker on 21/3/2018 at 05:34
It's so hard to get reelected when your opponents are dead or in prison or not allowed to run. Congratulations, indeed.
Vae on 21/3/2018 at 07:51
Speaking of opponents...
[video=youtube;_ukNdFooIlU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ukNdFooIlU[/video]
Oh no, not again!...:o
Next time there needs to be three guys helping her down the stairs, instead of only two...What on God's green earth were they thinking!...:mad:
Nicker on 21/3/2018 at 08:28
Keep jingling your keys, Vae. Somewhere a puppy is being distracted.
Medlar on 21/3/2018 at 08:55
Another lump goes into the fan!
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http://money.cnn.com/2018/03/18/technology/business/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-politicians-data/index.html) http://money.cnn.com/2018/03/18/technology/business/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-politicians-data/index.html
Alexander Nix an academic who created an app which harvested data from 50 million Facebook users says he has been made "a scapegoat" for Facebook and UK firm Cambridge Analytica. Dr Aleksandr Kogan completed work for Cambridge Analytica in 2014, but said he had no idea the data would be used to benefit Donald Trump's US presidential campaign. Facebook says Dr Kogan violated the site's policies.
Last night, Alexander Nix, the chief executive of Cambridge Analytica, was suspended, having been secretly filmed by Channel 4 News appearing to suggest the London-based firm could use tactics to discredit politicians online. The company says the programme "grossly misrepresented" Mr Nix's conversation.
Vae on 21/3/2018 at 09:14
Quote Posted by Nicker
Keep jingling your keys, Vae. Somewhere a puppy is being distracted.
Well, puppy, you surely were distracted.
Poor Hillary, her condition just keeps taking its dreadful toll...:tsktsk:
Vae on 21/3/2018 at 10:09
I know, we've got 'em right where we want him!...and this time that pesky wabbit won't slip through our fingers!...
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http://www.ttlg.com/forums/images/icons/icon15.gifI can already hear the impeachment bells ring!...:mad:
Starker on 21/3/2018 at 10:15
Yeah, this is not looking good.
Quote:
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https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/cambridge-academic-trawling-facebook-had-links-to-russian-university)
Aleksandr Kogan, the Cambridge University academic who orchestrated the harvesting of Facebook data, had previously unreported ties to a Russian university, including a teaching position and grants for research into the social media network, the Observer has discovered. Cambridge Analytica, the data firm he worked with - which funded the project to turn tens of millions of Facebook profiles into a unique political weapon - also attracted interest from a key Russian firm with links to the Kremlin.
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Last month Nix told MPs: "We have never worked with a Russian organisation in Russia or any other company. We do no have any relationship with Russia or Russian individuals."
That appears to contradict the company documents seen by the Observer, that list Russia as one of the countries where Cambridge Analytica and affiliate companies have clients.
[...]
Kogan, a lecturer who worked with Cambridge Analytica on building up the database of US voters then at the heart of the company's plans, said he had not had any connection to the Lukoil pitch.
But while he was helping turn Facebook profiles into a political tool he was also an associate professor at St Petersburg State University, taking Russian government grants to fund other research into social media. "Stress, health, and psychological wellbeing in social networks: cross-cultural investigation" was the title of one piece of research. Online posts showed Kogan lecturing in Russian. One talk was called: "New methods of communication as an effective political instrument".
Also, Rachel Maddow touched on it in one of her segments:
[video=youtube;JbLyTqPweQg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbLyTqPweQg[/video]
demagogue on 21/3/2018 at 10:41
Trump may well wiggle out of prosecution, sure. The whole GOP establishment seems to be on his side.
I can't imagine him being impeached since they'll never get the Senate vote in any conceivable scenario, so it'd have to be some other avenue.
As a lawyer I don't have human emotions so can shrug at the whole charade and merely observe how the system dysfunctionally operates.
But for anyone that's studied political corruption and the policies for addressing it, it's important that corrupt officials be prosecuted or it creates a culture of impunity and the corruption only sets in over the next wave. Look at what happened in Italy after Berlusconi before and after his conviction.