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http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/california/Wall-Fire-Butte-County-Mandatory-Evacuations-Sunday-433474393.html

>About 4,000 people evacuated and another 7,400 were told to prepare to leave their homes as fire swept through grassy foothills in the Sierra Nevada, about 60 miles north of Sacramento, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said Sunday.

>The Wall Fire has burned nearly 4 square miles, injured four firefighters and destroyed at least 10 structures, but that number is expected to rise, fire spokeswoman Mary Ann Aldrich said.

>The area burning was southeast of Oroville, where spillways in the nation's tallest dam began crumbling from heavy rains this winter and led to temporary evacuation orders for 200,000 residents downstream.

what did oroville do to deserve a possible flood and now fire?

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http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/27/health/washington-gender-neutral-drivers-license/index.html

>Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser announced the change last week, after a similar policy from the state of Oregon. The change had been in the works for months as part of an effort to make the District of Columbia's gender identity policies more inclusive, her office said.

>"The new gender neutral identifier offers gender nonbinary District residents a gender designation that affirms who they are," said Sheila Alexander-Reid, director of the Mayor's Office of LGBTQ Affairs. "The implementation of a gender neutral identifier is consistent with our D.C. values of inclusion and respect."

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/gop-operative-peter-smith-claimed-flynn-ties-in-effort-to-obtain-clinton-emails

HIS NAME WAS PETER W. SMITH

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News Outlets to Seek Bargaining Rights Against Google and Facebook
>Google and Facebook, are posing a bigger threat economically than President Trump is (so far) with his rhetoric.
>Google and Facebook continue to gobble up the digital advertising market, siphoning away revenue that once paid for the quality journalism that Google and Facebook now offer for free.
>newspapers that once delivered their journalism with their own trucks increasingly have to rely on these big online platforms to get their articles in front of people, fighting for attention alongside fake news, and cat videos.
>It’s an uneasy alliance that has publishers chafing at the returns they receive from Google and Facebook, which rely on the free flow of premium news and information.
>It’s an extreme measure with long odds.
>The Alliance, the main newspaper industry trade group, is leading the effort to bargain as a group. But it has buy-in across the spectrum of its membership, bringing together competitors like The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post as well as scores of regional papers like The Star Tribune of Minneapolis, which face the gravest threats of all.
>Capturing the current mood, News Corporation — which oversees The Journal, The New York Post and Dow Jones — said in a statement that it supported the effort to “focus the public and Congress on the anticompetitive behavior of the digital duopoly, especially as it adversely affects the news and information businesses.”


http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/news-outlets-to-seek-bargaining-rights-against-google-and-facebook/ar-BBE5Eko?li=BBmkt5R&OCID=ems.display.welcomeexperience

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Greek Coast Guard Fires At Turkish Freighter, 16 Bullet Holes Reported

According to the Deniz News Agency, the Greek Coast Guard boats from Iskenderun to the Gulf of Izmit have armed attack on the Turkish flagged M / V ACT named freighter. It was fired by Greek SSI boats on the island of Rhodes on the Turkish flagged dry dock named M / V ACT, which has a capacity of 4300 DWT carrying capacity towards the Izmit Gulf with the load it has loaded from ?skenderun.

M / V ACT named load cargo going to Izmit Gulf after ?skenderun's iron steel load, Greek Coast Guard boats in international waters on the outskirts of Rhodes are required to dock to Greek Harbor but the captain can not comply with this directive. he gave. While heading to Turkish territorial waters, the Greek Coast Guard M / V ACT carried out a military attack on the named freighter.

'There are 16 holes on board'

Sami Kalkavan, the captain of the island told CNN TURK. Kalkavan said, 'Coast guard wanted immediate withdrawal of the ship from Port of Lodos, we did not accept it. They wanted to check, we did not accept it. They told us they would shoot if we did not stop. They did it. Now there are 16 holes in the ship. There's no danger of water getting in the ship, but we've done a great deal of danger. These were all good things about us, '' he said.
Turkey's NTV adds that the Turkish Foreign Ministry is “in contact with relevant institutions” over the incident.

While it is unclear yet if this is the start of another major diplomatic incident between the volatile neighbors, NTV also adds that there are now 2 Turkish coast guard vessels off Rhodes following the incident.


http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-07-03/greek-coast-guard-fires-turkish-freighter-16-bullet-holes-reported

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HAMBURG has woken up to shocking scenes of destruction after shops were looted and barricades burned to the ground following another night of violent anti-G20 protests.

Shocking images and footage from the city show ransacked shops and empty shelves, with broken glass littering the pavements.

Many have also been vandalised with thick, black graffiti, while others were torched after a night of fiery clashes between demonstrators and the police.

Several cash machines became a target, with thugs trying to set them on fire and rip them from the walls.An estimated 100,000 people have taken part in a number of protests across the city, many of which have now turned violent as world leaders met.

At least 213 police officers have been injured in the demonstrations and the numbers are expected to rise, a police spokesperson said.

No official figures on the number of injured protestors have been revealed yet, but 14 people have been arrested and 63 are held in custody.

“It is like a war zone, absolutely crazy,” said Daniel Krohn, 42, a local resident. "I can not wrap my head around the level of violence.”

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/826252/g20-summit-protest-violence-Hamburg-Germany-masked-rioters-loot-shops-burn-cars

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President Donald Trump said Saturday the U.S. would contribute $50 million to a new World Bank fund conceived by his daughter that aims to help women entrepreneurs access capital and other support.

Ivanka Trump joined World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim on the sidelines of the Group of 20 world leaders' summit in Hamburg, Germany, to launch the Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative.

Kim said the fund had raised more than $325 million so far for projects and programs to support women and women-led businesses by improving access to capital and markets, providing technical assistance, training and mentoring, and pushing public policy. The fund grew out of conversations between Ivanka Trump and Kim early in Trump's administration.

"This is not a cute little project," Kim said during a panel discussion, arguing the effort would spur real economic growth.

President Trump, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and German Chancellor Angela Merkel also spoke at the event, where Trump said the fund would help eliminate barriers for women to launch businesses, help transform "millions and millions of lives," and "provide new hope to these women from countless communities all across the world."

"The critical investments we're announcing today will help advance the economic empowerment of women around the world," he said. more in link..

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/trump-pledges-50-million-women-entrepreneurs-48520151

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>Good Samaritan who helped toddler find her parents is assaulted by the two-year-old's father who thought he kidnapped her and dubbed a 'child predator' on social media

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4643834/Good-Samaritan-falsely-dubbed-child-predator-flees-town.html

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The White House on Wednesday requested that every state surrender a laundry list of voter data, including partial social security numbers, using an insecure email address unprotected by even basic encryption technology.

>Encouraging state election officials to transmit voter data insecurely belies the White House’s stated goal of improving the security and integrity of federal election systems.

>A letter to Connecticut Secretary of State Denise Miller containing the request was tweeted out Thursday afternoon by Vanita Gupta, president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. It was signed by Kris Kobach, the vice chairman of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity. (Vice President Mike Pence chairs the commission, which was formed in mid-May by executive order.) Kobach confirmed to the Kansas City Star that he sent similar letters to officials in every state.

>The commission is tasked with drafting a report for President Donald Trump about the processes for registering and voting in federal elections. According to the letter, the commission is investigating “vulnerabilities and issues related to voter registration and voting.” Trump created the commission to look into his unproven claims of widespread voter fraud—the president has asserted that between 3 and 5 million illegal ballots were cast for his opponent, Hillary Clinton, ultimately costing him the popular vote.

>The requested data includes:

1. Full names
2. Home addresses
3. Dates of birth
4. Political affiliations
5. Last four digits of social security numbers
6. Elections voted in from 2006 onward
7. Information about felony convictions
8. Information about voter registration in other states
9. Information about military status
10. And overseas citizen information

http://gizmodo.com/trumps-election-fraud-commission-asked-states-to-send-s-1796535568

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As part of what some are calling a “soft secession” from Republican-ruled Washington, California progressives are weighing various forms of resistance to Trump administration initiatives (notably in immigration enforcement), along with alternative policies the state might pursue on its own. The most striking in this latter category, considering how close Congress is right now to enacting a highly reactionary health-care bill, is a drive to create a state-based single-payer system.

>Legislation to do just that has already passed the California Senate, and given the supermajorities Democrats possess in both state legislative chambers (not a luxury Democrats have in New York, another state that has made progress in the same direction), proponents of single-payer health care were looking to the Golden State for a breakthrough. But late last week House Speaker Anthony Rendon harshed their mellow by declaring the legislation dead for this year. Renton did not mince words:

>>In a statement, he mentions how the bill “was sent to the Assembly woefully incomplete,” namely that “it does not address many serious issues, such as financing, delivery of care, cost controls, or the realities of needed action by the Trump Administration and voters to make SB 562 a genuine piece of legislation.”

>The bill that passed the California Senate, you see, did not address the rather significant detail of how single-payer would be financed. Since the official legislative estimate is that it would boost state health-care costs by $200 billion — which would more than double the state budget — that’s a pretty big omission.

http://www.nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/06/californias-single-payer-bill-halted-by-assembly-speaker.html

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http://www.cbsnews.com/news/science-division-of-white-house-office-now-empty-as-last-staffers-depart/

>The science division of the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) was unstaffed as of Friday as the three remaining employees departed this week, sources tell CBS News.
>All three employees were holdovers from the Obama administration. The departures from the division -- one of four subdivisions within the OSTP -- highlight the different commitment to scientific research under Presidents Obama and Trump.
>Under Mr. Obama, the science division was staffed with nine employees who led the charge on policy issues such as STEM education, biotechnology and crisis response. It's possible that the White House will handle these issues through staff in other divisions within the OSTP.
>On Friday afternoon, Eleanor Celeste, the assistant director for biomedical and forensic sciences at the OSTP, tweeted, "Science division out. Mic drop" before leaving the office for the last time.
>Kumar Garg, a former OSTP staffer under Mr. Obama, also tweeted, "By COB today, number of staffers in White House OSTP's Science Division = 0."

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http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2017/07/04/cnn-blackmails-source-donald-trump-wrestling-video/

n Tuesday, the Reddit user posted an apology (since deleted, but reprinted in full below, via Buzzfeed News).

CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski then reported Tuesday that CNN had “identified the man behind the account,” and had spoken with the Reddit user after he posted his apology. The Reddit user reportedly “asked to not be named out of fear for his personal safety and for the public embarrassment it would bring to him and his family,” Kaczynski said.

Ultimately, CNN decided not to reveal his identity — not for safety reasons, but for political ones, apparently reward ing him for apologizing and recanting his views. In addition, CNN threatened to expose the Reddit user’s identity in future if it disapproved of his behavior or his statements — essentially blackmailing him:

>CNN is not publishing “HanA**holeSolo’s” name because he is a private citizen who has issued an extensive statement of apology, showed his remorse by saying he has taken down all his offending posts, and because he said he is not going to repeat this ugly behavior on social media again. In addition, he said his statement could serve as an example to others not to do the same.

>CNN reserves the right to publish his identity should any of that change.

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https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/28/15887496/petya-virus-not-actually-ransomware-analysis-shows

>The virus that began spreading through European computers yesterday informed users that they could unlock their machines by paying a $300 ransom. But it looks like the bug’s creators had no intention of restoring the machines at all. In fact, a new analysis reveals they couldn’t; the bug was designed to wipe computers outright.

>Matt Suiche, founder of the cybersecurity firm Comae, writes in a blog post today that after analyzing the virus, known as Petya, his team determined that it was a “wiper,” not ransomware. “We can see the current version of Petya clearly got rewritten to be a wiper and not a actual ransomware,” Suiche writes.

>The virus going around is a modified take on an earlier version of the Petya bug that was true ransomware. But Comae saw that code had been specifically modified to change it from a virus that encrypts a disk and demands a ransom into a virus that simply destroys the disk.

>So then why purport to be ransomware? There’s no way to say for certain right now, but Suiche believes it was about hiding who was really behind the attack. “We believe the ransomware was in fact a lure to control the media narrative,” he writes, saying that ransomware suggests “some mysterious hacker group” being behind the virus “rather than a national state.”

>That’s still speculation for now, but the virus did appear to primarily target Ukrainian infrastructure, including an electricity supplier, the central bank, the state telecom, and an airport. Analysis from Kaspersky Lab yesterday showed the virus remaining primarily in Ukraine.

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http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/340806-trump-supporter-admits-writing-anti-trump-graffiti-at-elementary

>A supporter of President Trump in Connecticut says he wrote threatening anti-Trump graffiti on elementary school equipment hoping to frame Democrats because he believes they are "disrespectful to our government."

>Stephen Marks, 32, wrote “Kill Trump,” “Left is the best,” "Bernie Sanders 2020" and “Death to Trump” on playground equipment at Hartford's Morley Elementary School last month, according to the Hartford Courant.

>He told the newspaper that he was was taking his dog to the park on a bicycle when he found a green marker and “had the dumb idea to vandalize the school with what would seem to be liberal hate speech.”

>A surveillance camera caught the vandalism, and police posted footage showing him riding around on his bike and then writing on the equipment. Marks said he turned himself in after seeing the footage on the news.

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https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2500515/alexis-ohanian-fiancee-serena-williams-reddit-expecting-baby/