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Snowden And WikiLeaks Go To War Over The Ethics Of The DNC Email Hack July 29, 2016 email-feat-uproxx More Getty Image Last week, the DNC saw  thousands of emails leaked . It led to angry Bernie supporters protesting at the convention and accusations that  Russia was attempting to influence the US elections  using WikiLeaks as a catspaw. Now another leaker, Edward Snowden, has taken on WikiLeaks on Twitter, and it opens the door to looking at the ethics of leaking. When To Leak And What To Leak? Snowden, famous for working with journalists to  unveil the NSA’s domestic surveillance program , took to Twitter to, however gently, criticize WikiLeaks. In response, Wikileaks did not take it well: Edward Snowden   ✔ @Snowden Democratizing information has never been more vital, and  @ Wikileaks  has helped. But their hostility to even modest curation is a mistake.  Follo...

PLAYING GOD? Tens of millions spent on huge project to change the WEATHER A CONTROVERSIAL project costing tens of millions of pounds will attempt to change the weather.  By  SEAN MARTIN 05:01, Sat, Jul 30, 2016   | UPDATED:  10:56, Sat, Jul 30, 2016 GETTY China is trying to make it rain China are ploughing more than £22million into shooting salt-and-mineral-filled bullets into the sky in a bid to make it rain. But Beijing is not alone in its pursuit to play God with the weather, with at least 52 countries, including the US, using weather modification techniques which allows authorities to clear the skies or make it rain. Droughts in places such as the the US and China are one of the biggest constraints on their farming industries, which is why scientists are working to eradicate the the prolonged dry seasons. They will do this by putting chemicals in the sky. GETTY Droughts are China and the US's biggest threat to their farming industries ...

MUMBAI: A massive search operation is underway for the country's most famous tiger, with millions of adoring fans worried sick about the big cat known as Jai who went missing three months ago. Named after Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan's character in the hit 1975 film "Sholay", the tiger shot to nationwide fame three years ago after embarking on an epic hike through villages, rivers and perilously dangerous highways in successful pursuit of a mate. firm favourite with tourists and conservationists alike, the seven-year-old, 250-kilogram big cat was last seen at the Umred Karhandla Wildlife Sanctuary, where he usually lives, on April 18. Wildlife officials in Maharashtra launched a massive search operation, hoping to find the beloved animal by Friday -- International Tiger Day -- but admit that they are clueless as to his fate. "Whether he has moved to forest interiors or is with a new mate, no information is available as of yet," M S Redd...

  11 minutes ago . Shoppers ride escalators at the Beverly Center mall in Los Angeles, California November 8, 2013. REUTERS/David McNew/File Photo By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. economy grew far less than expected in the second quarter as inventories fell for the first time since 2011, but a surge in consumer spending pointed to underlying strength. Gross domestic product increased at a 1.2 percent annual rate after rising by a downwardly revised 0.8 percent pace in the first quarter, the Commerce Department said on Friday. The economy was previously reported to have grown at a 1.1 percent pace in the first quarter. Gross domestic product increased at a 1.2 percent annual rate after rising by a downwardly revised 0.8 percent pace in the first quarter, the Commerce Department said on Friday. The economy was previously reported to have grown at a 1.1 percent pace in the first quarter. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast GDP gro...

doesn't just make you grouchy: Poor sleep 'also makes you more FORGETFUL' RESEARCH has finally confirmed what most of us take for granted - poor sleepers are more likely to be forgetful as well as unhappy. By  TONY BROOKS AND OLIVIA LERCHE 09:44, Fri, Jul 29, 2016   | UPDATED:  13:13, Fri, Jul 29, 2016 GETTY Research suggests that 25% of those who spend less than five hours asleep are more forgetful A study of more than 1,000 UK adults showed that 25 per cent of those who spend less than five hours in the land of Nod suffer from memory malfunction which affects their  quality  of life. Participants aged 18 to 80 were asked to measure their sleep against five different “everyday” memories: having to check whether they’ve done something; forgetting to tell somebody something important; where things are normally kept; doing something they intended to do such as posting a letter and finding it difficult to concentrate. Poor sleep was classed as ...

Because the number of expatriates tends to increase toward the end of the year, 2016 could still set another record for the number of Americans it sends packing. (AP Photo/Alison Redlich) By RUDY TAKALA   ( @RUDYTAKALA )   •   7/29/16 12:01 AM A total of 509 Americans renounced their citizenship in the second quarter of the year, according to information published by the Internal Revenue Service, putting the country on track to lose at least the second highest number of citizens on record. That brings the total number of expatriates for the year to 1,667, according to  data  published on Friday, just below the 1,795 who renounced during the same period in 2015, the highest on record. Yet because the number of expatriates tends to increase toward the end of the year, 2016 could still set another record for the number of Americans it sends packing. Tax experts have suggested the uptick is due, in part, to the Foreign Account Tax Compliance ...

Posted by  John Kartch and Alexander Hendrie  on Thursday, July 28th, 2016, 2:56 PM   PERMALINK Hillary Clinton has made clear she intends to dramatically raise taxes on the American people if elected. She has proposed an income tax increase, a business tax increase, a death tax increase, a capital gains tax increase, a tax on stock trading, an "Exit Tax" and more (see below). Her planned net tax increase on the American people is at least $1 trillion over ten years, based on her campaign’s own figures. Hillary has endorsed several tax increases on middle income Americans, despite her  pledge  not to raise taxes on any American making less than $250,000. She has said she would be fine with a  payroll tax hike  on all Americans, she has endorsed a steep  soda tax , endorsed a  25% national gun tax , and most recently, her campaign manager John Podesta  said  she would be open to a carbon tax. It’s no ...

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' Net Worth Hits Record High As Fortune Jumps $2.6 Billion Kate Vinton   ,   FORBES STAFF  I track the world’s wealthiest people   Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File) Jeff Bezos has added $2.6 billion to his fortune in the past day, thanks to a strong quarterly earnings report from Amazon after markets closed on Thursday. His net worth reached a new high of $66.5 billion as of 5:00 p.m. Eastern. Bezos gained $1.3 billion during trading on Thursday, passing investor Warren Buffett by $300 million and ending the day as the world’s third richest person; he briefly passed Buffett on Friday for the first time but by end of that day had slipped back to fourth. Bezos then gained another $1.3 billion in after-hours trading on Thursday, putting him $1.5 billion ahead of Buffett. As expected, Amazon’s second quarter earnings beat analyst estimates for both profit and revenue....

Trump left out of Google search for presidential candidates By  NBC4 Staff Published:  July 27, 2016, 5:06 am    Updated:  July 28, 2016, 2:58 pm COLUMBUS (WCMH) – Googling the presidential candidates Wednesday morning didn’t produce the exact results some people would expect. Searching for the term ‘presidential candidates’ brought up a handy guide above all of the other search results with pictures of candidates with active campaigns. Clicking on a picture brought up searches for the candidates. The only problem is that Republican candidate Donald Trump wasn’t included. Neither was Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson. Google search result for “Presidential Candidates” shortly after noon Wednesday. Results were shown for Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Green Party candidate Jill Stein. NBC4 reached out to Google to ask about the issue. Around noon Wednesday, Trump and Johnson were both added back to the Google search results. G...

Merkel admits EU is being RAVAGED BY TERROR but says Germany should welcome MORE refugees CHANCELLOR Angela Merkel has said Germany is facing a “major” threat from terrorism but that this should not stop refugees being welcomed to Europe. By  TOM BATCHELOR 12:23, Thu, Jul 28, 2016   | UPDATED:  13:25, Thu, Jul 28, 2016 GETTY German Chancellor Angela Merkel The German leader, who cut short her summer holiday to speak after a  string of Islamist attacks rocked the country , said the entire continent was being “ravaged” by terrorism. She described recent attacks in Ansbach, Wurzburg and Munich as “horrifying and depressing” but insisted Germany would not turn its back on people fleeing the Middle East.  In the wake of the killings, Mrs Merkel said Germany now needed a better “early warning system” to spot radicalised Muslims among the newly-arrived migrants. She said the central government would “redouble its efforts” against the threat, incr...