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Satirists have repeatedly drawn on the similarities between President Donald Trump and Middle Eastern and African dictators, for installing his family in senior advisory positions in the White House as much as for his excessive self-regard and his respect for military tough men. Now critics can tick off another point on the autocrat checklist following Attorney General Jeff Sessions's announcement on Friday that a new crackdown on leakers will include a Justice Department (DOJ) review of policies governing how the department deals with media outlets that publish leaked information.

>Sessions and National Intelligence Director Dan Coats announced at a press conference that more DOJ and FBI resources would be directed towards pursuing leakers, particularly those who pass information on to the press and foreign officials.

>The moves comes after a wave of leaks hit the White House, exposing, among other things, contact between Trump officials and Russian government officials, with alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia the subject of multiple investigations.

>Trump allies accused a “deep state” of security officials of orchestrating the leaks in a bid to unseat the president. Trump has railed against leakers, and placed Sessions under pressure to prosecute more of those who disclose classified information. He has also attacked what he has called the “fake news” media for publishing “illegal leaks.”

>In an escalation of the administration's campaign against what it claims are hostile branches of the media, Sessions announced that part of the focus of the new anti-leakers crackdown would be the press.

>Sessions said Friday the administration had tripled the number of illegal leaks cases over the previous administration, and said that after meeting intelligence officials, the DOJ would review its policies affecting media subpoenas.

http://www.newsweek.com/trump-administration-goes-after-press-new-leaks-crackdown-646908

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The Election Integrity Project California provides a list of 11 California counties that have more registered voters than voting-age citizens.

In addition, Los Angeles County officials informed the project that “the number of registered voters now stands at a number that is a whopping 144% of the total number of resident citizens of voting age.”

https://mishtalk.com/2017/08/05/california-has-11-counties-with-more-registered-voters-than-voting-age-citizens-registered-voters-144-of-egilibility/amp/

Based on our review of 2016 EAC EAVS report, the 2011-2015 U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, and the most recent California total active and total inactive voter registration records, California is failing to comply with the voter registration list maintenance requirements of Section 8 of the NVRA. For example, a comparison of the 2011-2015 U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, and the most recent California active and inactive voter registration records shows there were more total registered voters than there were adults over the age of 18 living in each of the following eleven (11) counties: Imperial (102%), Lassen (102%), Los Angeles (112%), Monterey (104%), San Diego (138%), San Francisco (114%), San Mateo (111%), Santa Cruz (109%), Solano (111%), Stanislaus (102%), and Yolo (110%). Our own research shows that the situation in these counties is, if anything, worse than the foregoing data suggest. For example, we contacted Los Angeles County directly this past June. At that time, county officials informed us that the total number of registered voters now stands at a number that is a whopping 144% of the total number of resident citizens of voting age.
How bad is actual fraud vs. possible fraud?
How much is purposeful fraud (letting noncitizens) on the voter rolls?
How often do the dead and nonresidents vote?

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http://globalnews.ca/news/3645356/girl-4-asks-police-officer-to-help-look-for-get-rid-of-monsters-in-new-home/

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By Alex Thompson Aug 9, 2017

Twice a day since the beginning of the Trump administration, a special folder is prepared for the president. The first document is prepared around 9:30 a.m. and the follow-up, around 4:30 p.m. Former Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and former Press Secretary Sean Spicer both wanted the privilege of delivering the 20-to-25-page packet to President Trump personally, White House sources say.

These sensitive papers, described to VICE News by three current and former White House officials, don’t contain top-secret intelligence or updates on legislative initiatives. Instead, the folders are filled with screenshots of positive cable news chyrons (those lower-third headlines and crawls), admiring tweets, transcripts of fawning TV interviews, praise-filled news stories, and sometimes just pictures of Trump on TV looking powerful.

One White House official said the only feedback the White House communications shop, which prepares the folder, has ever gotten in all these months is: “It needs to be more fucking positive.” That’s why some in the White House ruefully refer to the packet as “the propaganda document.”

https://news.vice.com/story/trump-folder-positive-news-white-house

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Some Apple employees reportedly hate the open office plan at the company’s brand new $5 billion headquarters.

The company has spent more than six years planning and building Apple Park to precise specifications. From a 100,000-square-foot fitness and wellness center, to meticulously designed fire exit signs, the company spared no expense in getting the details right — except, perhaps, when it comes to employee workspaces.

Prominent Apple podcaster and blogger John Gruber passed along rumors that some high-level Apple staffers are unsatisfied with the company’s open floor plan — which has many company engineers working at long tables with co-workers, instead of in cubicles or offices.

Some employees have reportedly insisted on their own space outside of the main spaceship-style building.

"I heard that when floor plans were announced, that there was some meeting with [Apple Vice President] Johny Srouji's team,” said Gruber. “He's in charge of Apple's silicon, the A10, the A11, all of their custom silicon. Obviously a very successful group at Apple, and a large and growing one with a lot on their shoulders.”

Gruber continued, “When he [Srouji] was shown the floor plans, he was more or less just 'Fuck that, fuck you, fuck this, this is bullshit.' And they built his team their own building, off to the side on the campus … My understanding is that that building was built because Srouji was like, 'Fuck this, my team isn't working like this.’”

Gruber qualified his report as being thirdhand and unconfirmed.


https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2017/08/08/apple-park-employees-floor-plan-hq-spaceship-aapl.html?ana=fbk

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>The rare genetic disorder is caused by a missing enzyme which prevents the production of the male sex hormone dihydro-testosterone in the womb. It creates what looks like a baby girl on birth.

>But at puberty, when testosterone flows, their voices break and they grow a male sexual reproductive organ that they become recognised as male.

One-in-90 children born in Salinas in the Dominican Republic grow a penis in a natural transformation from female to male.

Known as the guevedoces, which translates to “penis at 12”, these youngsters are referred to in medical terms as “pseudohermaphrodite”.

It is so common to be a pseudohermaphrodite in Salinas, that it is accepted as a third sex, alongside male and female.

The phenomenon is explored in a BBC2 series called Countdown to Life – the Extraordinary Making of You.

Presenters meet Johnny, 24, who is physically and biologically male but was once known as Felicitia.

As a child, he did not have a penis and was brought up as a girl.

He said: “I remember I used to wear a little red dress. I was born at home instead of in a hospital. They didn’t know what sex I was.

“I went to school and I used to wear my skirt. I never liked to dress as a girl. When they bought me girls toys I never bothered playing with them. All I wanted to do was play with the boys.”

The rare genetic disorder is caused by a missing enzyme which prevents the production of the male sex hormone dihydro-testosterone in the womb. It creates what looks like a baby girl on birth.

But at puberty, when testosterone flows, their voices break and they grow a male sexual reproductive organ that they become recognised as male.

BBC presenter Dr Michael Mosley said: “Guevedoces are also sometimes called ‘machihembras’ meaning ‘first a woman, then a man.’
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4187004/guevedoces-girls-turn-into-boys-salinas/

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http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/04/politics/trump-supporters-optimism-wear-off/index.html

>More than six months into Donald Trump's young presidency, optimism among his core supporters -- and American voters at large -- is starting to fade.

>After Trump's surprise victory in November, six in 10 American voters said they were mostly optimistic about his presidency. But that number slipped to 52% in March and 43% today -- now 10 percentage points underwater, according to new polling this week from Quinnipiac University.

>Indeed, a majority of registered voters (53%) now say they are mostly pessimistic about the next few years of Trump's time in office.

>And core groups that carried Trump to victory are not immune to the deteriorating optimism around the President about six months into his term.

>Optimism for the Trump presidency among Republican voters dropped from a virtually unanimous 96% in January and March down to 84% now, with one in six Republicans now saying they are mainly pessimistic about his tenure.

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>Dozens of senior officials have been reassigned at the Department of the Interior, including Dr. Virginia Burkett, who contributed to the IPCC reports that won the Nobel Peace Prize.

https://www.thenation.com/article/donald-trump-and-ryan-zinke-are-purging-climate-scientists-for-telling-the-truth/

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https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/03/special-counsel-mueller-impanels-grand-jury-in-russia-probe-wsj-reports.html

>Robert Mueller, the special counsel overseeing the Russia investigation, has impaneled a grand jury in Washington, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.

>The move means the probe is intensifying and could stretch "for months," according to the newspaper. Impaneling a grand jury suggests Mueller "believes he will need to subpoena records and take testimony from witnesses," the Journal said.

>It does not necessarily mean he will bring charges against Trump allies.

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The University of Iowa has announced the discovery of a special privilege which intelligent people acquire as an accident of birth.
This new privilege — called “cognitive privilege” — functions in essentially the same way as white privilege.

http://dailycaller.com/2017/07/29/update-not-being-stupid-is-cognitive-privilege-now-which-is-just-like-white-privilege/

Privilege in general is “the receipt of certain benefits wholly through accident of birth and it is “undeniable that privilege itself is a reality,” the student newspaper explains.
As with skin color and much else, Daily Iowan author Dan Williams argues, people have no control over how smart they are. Life is a huge cosmic lottery full of winners and losers.
“Thus, the accident of having been born smart enough to be able to be successful is a great benefit that you did absolutely nothing to earn. Consequently, you have nothing to be proud of for being smart.”
Williams believes that America will be better able to discuss “white privilege” and the “temperature-rising topic of racial privilege” if it is able to admit the existence of “cognitive privilege.”
“Feelings of guilt are natural when coming to consciousness of one’s place in the scheme of things — and noticing that one has been conferred benefits through sheer accident — but guilt is an impediment to social-justice action, not a motivator (guilt slides easily into resentment),” the author writes.
“We can debate whether ‘whiteness’ is a sort of ‘master privilege’ that overrules all others.”

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The Department of Justice is supporting Ohio in its bid at the Supreme Court to revive a state policy of purging inactive voters from registration rolls. Previously, the DOJ backed civil rights groups who argued the policy violated federal law.

The Department of Justice filed an amicus brief with the high court on Monday, arguing that Ohio’s method of purging voters from rolls through a procedure known as the “Supplemental Process” does not violate the 1993 National Voter Registration Act (NVRA).

Under Ohio’s policy, voters who do not cast a ballot for two years would be sent a notice to confirm their voter registration. Voters who do not respond to the notice or cast a ballot in the state for another four years would be removed from the rolls, even if they have not moved and are still fully eligible to vote.

In 2016, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Demos filed a lawsuit on behalf of Larry Harmon, 60, an Ohio resident who was purged from the voter rolls after he decided not to vote in two elections.

The lawsuit was filed against Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted, a Republican who is also running for governor next year. The lawsuit argues that the policy violated the NVRA, which prohibits states from purging registered voters "by reason of the person's failure to vote."

A brief filed by the Justice Department under former President Barack Obama supported the civil rights groups in the lawsuit, arguing that under the NVRA, US states “must have reliable evidence indicating a voter’s change of address before they initiate the NVRA-prescribed process to cancel the voter’s registration based on a change of residence.”

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit heard the case and ruled that the state policy did violate the NVRA. The court blocked the state from implementing the policy.

https://www.rt.com/usa/399020-ohio-voter-purge-doj-brief/

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(CNN)There was a line of thinking in Washington this week that President Donald Trump might scale back his rhetoric on the ongoing special counsel investigation into Russia, the result of a new White House chief of staff in John Kelly and a reshuffled legal team.

https://web.archive.org/web/20170804114725/http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/04/politics/trump-russia/index.html

And then, Trump said this:
"They can't beat us at the voting booths, so they're trying to cheat you out of the future and the future that you want. They're trying to cheat you out of the leadership you want with a fake story that is demeaning to all of us, and most importantly, demeaning to our country and demeaning to our Constitution."
That's important. Especially this line: "They're trying to cheat you out of the future and the future that you want."
There's a lot going on in that sentence so let's unpack it a bit.
First, "they." Trump is ostensibly referring to Democrats here. But, he means it in a wider sense too. "They" are the media, the establishment, the intellectuals -- all the people who tell people in Trump's crowd (and in his America) they don't matter.
Second, the idea that "they" are "trying to cheat you out of the future and the future you want." Two of the most powerful sentiments in life (and in politics) are hope and grievance. And Trump is tapping into both of them.

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North Korea has said it is considering carrying out missile strikes on the US Pacific territory of Guam.

>The report in state media, quoting an earlier military statement, came hours after President Donald Trump threatened North Korea with "fire and fury".

>The North's official news agency said it was considering a plan to fire medium-to-long-range rockets at Guam, where US strategic bombers are based.

>The exchanges marks a sharp rise in rhetoric between the two countries.

>The UN recently approved further economic sanctions on North Korea, which Pyongyang said were a "violent violation of our sovereignty", warning the US would "pay a price".

'Met with fire and fury'

>On Wednesday, the official KCNA news agency said North Korea was "carefully examining the operational plan for making an enveloping fire at the areas around Guam" using its domestically made medium-to-long-range Hwasong-12 missiles.

>The statement reported a military statement issued on Tuesday, which probably came in response to US military drills in Guam.

>But it is the latest stage in a heating up of rhetoric between the US and North Korea.

>Pyongyang, which has tested nuclear devices five times, tested two intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) in July, claiming it now had the ability to hit the mainland US.

>On Tuesday, media reports in the US claimed the North had achieved its goal of making a nuclear warhead small enough to fit inside its missiles.

>While not confirmed, this was seen as one of the last obstacles to North Korea being a fully nuclear armed state.

>A report in the Washington Post, citing US intelligence officials, suggested North Korea is developing nuclear weapons capable of hitting the US at a much faster rate than expected.

>A Japanese government defence white paper also said the weapons programme had "advanced considerably" and that North Korea possibly now had nuclear weapons.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-40871416

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http://edition.cnn.com/2017/07/18/politics/trump-threatens-sanctions-on-bad-leader-maduro/index.html

Did the USA create the crisis in Venezuela? Take a look at the netflix series limitles Season 1: Ep.14 marker 26:30... In this scene Brian asks a rep of the think tank what they are planning in Venezuela. The episode was filmed in 2015!

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(CNN)A self-described "email prankster" in the UK fooled a number of White House officials into thinking he was other officials, including an episode where he convinced the White House official tasked with cyber security that he was Jared Kushner and received that official's private email address unsolicited.

>"Tom, we are arranging a bit of a soirée towards the end of August," the fake Jared Kushner on an Outlook account wrote to the official White House email account of Homeland Security Adviser Tom Bossert. "It would be great if you could make it, I promise food of at least comparible (sic) quality to that which we ate in Iraq. Should be a great evening."

>Bossert wrote back: "Thanks, Jared. With a promise like that, I can't refuse. Also, if you ever need it, my personal email is" (redacted).

>Bossert did not respond to CNN's request for comment; the email prankster said he was surprised Bossert responded given his expertise. The emails were shared with CNN by the email prankster.

>White House officials acknowledged the incidents and said they were taking the matter seriously. "We take all cyber related issues very seriously and are looking into these incidents further," White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told CNN.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/31/politics/white-house-officials-tricked-by-email-prankster/index.html