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http://dailycaller.com/2017/07/05/cnn-staff-reeling-after-personal-info-leaked/
BETSY ROTHSTEIN
07/05/2017

EXCLUSIVE: CNN Staff Reeling After Personal Info Leaked

Several anchors and reportersat CNN have had their home addresses published and have received threats of rape and other violence in the wake of a story published by Andrew Kaczynski, who heads up thenetwork’s investigativeK-FILE team. Anti-network trolls are encouraging viewersto wrongly accuse CNN staffers of pedophilia and child pornography.There is also “tons of anti-Semitism.”

“Frustration” is the predominant feeling inside CNN, The Mirror has learned.

Kaczynski published a story on the 4th of July in which he appeared to threaten to publish the name ofa Reddit user who parades aroundanonymously as“HanAssholeSolo.”

HanAssholeSolo claimed to be the originator of thewrestling video tweeted by President Trump in which POTUS flattened a wrestler whose face wasa CNN logo.

Trump has long accused CNN of being “fake news” and “very fake news.”

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http://www.euronews.com/2017/07/07/pizza-boy-celebrated-as-hero-after-making-it-through-g20-crowds

That’s what you call a good work ethic!

During the G20 protests in Hamburg on Thursday, it was not just the left-wing demonstrators attracting attention.

Footage of a pizza delivery driver snaking through the crowds appeared on live television footage of the protests.

His apparent bravery earned him praise on Twitter.

According to the website Fink Hamburg the driver is called Benjamin. It is thought the 27-year-old was on his way back from a delivery.

>He told the website passing through the protesters had been ‘really dangerous’.

The economy will be just fine.

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http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/maddow-to-news-orgs-heads-up-for-hoaxes-985491523709

>Rachel Maddow explains how an ostensible top secret NSA document submitted through the show's inbox is likely a fake, and points out the perils of such forgeries to news organizations trying to report out important stories like the Trump Russia story.

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http://www.newsweek.com/trump-poland-crowds-bus-communist-632124

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I don't blame her.

>Actress Stevie Ryan has died in what the L.A. County Coroner’s Office has ruled a suicide by hanging. She was 33.

>The coroner’s office confirmed online that Ryan died on Saturday, July 1. They did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for additional comment.

>The actress first rose to fame through her YouTube series called Little Loca, and later transitioned to doing celebrity parodies on the video platform.

>“I remember waking up and one Little Loca video had like 900 hits and I was like ‘Oh, my gosh. There’s people watching this?’ ” Ryan told The Hollywood Reporter in 2012. “And it just kept going and then I did this Paris Hilton thing and then it literally was just growing and growing. And I just became so obsessed with all of it.”

>Ryan parlayed her impersonations into a pop culture sketch series on VH1 called Stevie TV from 2012-2013, and was later a co-host of Brody Jenner‘s E! series Sex with Brody.

>She was most recently the co-host of Mentally Ch(ill), a “podcast about depression,” according to its iTunes description. In an episode released just two days before Ryan’s death, she revealed that her grandfather died Thursday.

>“I’m just worried that this is going to send me into a deeper depression,” she explained. During the episode, Ryan and co-host Kristen Carney also discussed suicide.

>Carney tweeted on Monday, “RIP @StevieRyan The coolest girl I’ve ever known.”

http://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/news/youtuber-stevie-ryan-commits-suicide-at-33-less-than-one-week-after-revealing-her-grandfather-had-died/ar-BBDFTKq?OCID=ansmsnnews11

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http://boingboing.net/2017/07/01/shitty-canada-day-gift.html
CORY DOCTOROW
SAT JUL 1, 2017

Canadian entertainment industry begs Chinese courts to censor its movies

The Supreme Court of Canada just handed down a controversial ruling in which it ordered Google to block links to a page that was deemed illegal in Canada for every Google user, everywhere in the world -- asserting that the Supreme Court of Canada's jurisdiction extends to the end of the earth.

Terrifyingly, Canadian entertainment industry execs are celebrating this ruling because they say that it will allow them to get copyright takedown orders in Canada and enforce them everywhere else.

This is nuts.

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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-qualcomm-idUSKBN19R2Y3

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http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/3d281c11a96b4ad082fe88aa0db04305/Article_2017-07-06-US--Ancient%20Artifacts-Hobby%20Lobby/id-97f15891bd8243249d45a7e20f4d4ad0

>Hobby Lobby, the arts-and-crafts chain whose devout Christian owners won a landmark Supreme Court ruling on religious freedom, is caught up in an antiquities-smuggling scandal that has opened the company to accusations of hypocrisy.

>The Oklahoma City-based business agreed to pay a $3 million fine Wednesday over its role in what federal prosecutors said was the smuggling into the U.S. of ancient clay tablets, seals and other Iraqi archaeological objects that might have been looted from the war-torn country.

>Online, many people piled on, with more than one saying things like: "I guess the rules don't apply to them, like 'Thou shall not steal.'"

>Hobby Lobby, whose president, Steve Green, has been collecting ancient artifacts since 2009 and is building an $800 million Bible museum in Washington, pleaded naivete in doing business with dealers in the Middle East.

>"The company was new to the world of acquiring these items and did not fully appreciate the complexities of the acquisitions process," Hobby Lobby said in a statement. "This resulted in some regrettable mistakes."

>Federal prosecutors described a scheme that involved lying and perhaps stealing. It included a number of middlemen and involved the use of phony or misleading invoices, shipping labels and other paperwork to slip the artifacts past U.S. customs agents, prosecutors said.

>Among other things, cuneiform tablets were labeled "ceramic tiles," and items carried paperwork that said they came from Turkey or Israel. Also, shipments were deliberately undervalued at less than $2,000 and artifacts were shipped in small batches to multiple addresses in Oklahoma City to avoid drawing the attention of customs agents, prosecutors said.

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http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/forty-four-states-refuse-give-voter-data-trump-panel-n779841?cid=public-rss_20170706

>Forty-five states and the District of Columbia are mounting a bipartisan rebellion against President Donald Trump’s commission on vote fraud by either declining to release any of the requested data or by providing only limited information to the panel.

>The Presidential Advisory Commission on Voter Integrity's request for extensive personal information about voters has ignited a firestorm in many states, including from both Republican and Democrat officials who oversee elections.

>The panel is seeking "dates of birth, political party (if recorded in your state), last four digits of social security number if available, voter history (elections voted in) from 2006 onward, active/inactive status, cancelled status, information regarding any felony convictions, information regarding voter registration in another state, information regarding military status, and overseas citizen information."

>Nineteen states — both red and blue — and D.C. are flat-out refusing to comply with the request, citing privacy concerns and some claiming the 15-member vote fraud panel is politically-motivated.

>Twenty-six states said they plan to only hand over only what is deemed public information by their respective state laws, while five states have yet to receive the commission's request or are still reviewing it, according to a count by NBC News.

>Many officials have expressed disbelief and outrage at the commission's call to hand over a staggering amount of voter data, some of which they say is confidential or sensitive.

>“I’m appalled that they even included that in their (letter),” Jim Condos, the Vermont Secretary of State, told NBC News. “They should know better.”

>Condos said he will provide no information about Vermont voters to the commission.

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ONE DAY Before The Saudi Ultimatum Expires, A Defiant Qatar Is "Ready To Face The Consequences"

The Qatari government, under a Saudi-led blockade of its air, sea and land links, is unwilling to concede any demands that threaten its sovereignty or violate international law, said Foreign Minister Mohammed Al Thani. Qatari stocks fell.

The small Gulf emirate is prepared to let pass the deadline for complying with 13 demands set down by the bloc, including shutting the Al Jazeera television network and cutting back ties with Iran, he said Saturday in Rome, where he met with his Italian counterpart.

Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt severed commercial links with Qatar almost a month ago, saying they were isolating the sheikdom over what they see as its tolerant attitude to Iran and support for Islamist groups. The group’s demands also include Qatar severing relations with the Muslim Brotherhood and ending Turkey’s military presence in the country. Qatar was given 10 days to respond.

Al Thani, in turn, accused the blockading nations of having ties to groups and individuals accused of terrorism.

“As for the countries that accuse Qatar of financing terrorism, they have the same problems as Qatar, more so, they are on top of the list in that area,” he said. “There are financial institutes in these countries involved in financing terrorist organization and financing terrorist operations in western countries.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-01/qatar-ready-for-consequences-of-blockade-showdown-minister-says

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Russians have picked Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin as the greatest figure in history, a new poll said Monday, beating President Vladimir Putin into joint second alongside poet Alexander Pushkin.
In the poll conducted in April by the Levada Centre independent pollster, Russians were asked to pick the ten greatest individuals of all time.
Stalin came out on top with 38 percent, while Putin shared second place on 34 percent with Russia's beloved national bard Pushkin.
Revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, Tsar Peter the Great and first man in space Yury Gagarin came next in the list of 20 people, with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in last place on six percent.
The list includes famed statesmen, writers and scientists but only three foreigners: Napoleon Bonaparte, Albert Einstein, and Isaac Newton.
Stalin topped a similar poll back in 2012 with an even higher score as Russians focus on his role in winning World War II rather the millions who were executed or sent to prison camps under his rule.
Putin's percentage was the highest since he began appearing in the poll in 2003.

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/stalin-tops-putin-russian-poll-greatest-historical-figures-110751136.html

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In advance of President Donald Trump's highly anticipated bilateral meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday, intelligence officials created a list of "tweet-length sentences" summarizing key points Trump could discuss, the Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday.

>The meeting between the two leaders was initially going to be on the sidelines of this week's G-20 summit in Hamburg, Germany. But on Tuesday, the White House said the Trump-Putin meeting would instead be an official, bilateral sit-down.

>To prepare Trump, intelligence officials put together a detailed psychological profile on Putin, a former KGB officer and Russian spy, the Times reported. The profile was included in a binder full of other materials. Trump, however, frequently relies on in-person briefings to bring him up to speed, and he prefers shorter sentences and "killer graphics" as opposed to denser notes.

>"I like bullets, or I like as little as possible," Trump told the news website Axios before his inauguration in January. "I don't need, you know, 200-page reports on something that can be handled on a page."

>In keeping with that, intelligence officials condensed the main points Trump could bring up with Putin into "tweet-length sentences."

>Trump's approach to presidential briefings contrasts with that of prior presidents. After the November election, he said he did not need daily intelligence briefings.

>"You know, I'm, like, a smart person," he said. "I don't have to be told the same thing in the same words every single day for the next eight years. Could be eight years — but eight years. I don't need that."

>In May, Reuters, citing an anonymous source, reported that National Security Council officials would strategically include Trump's name in "as many paragraphs as we can because he keeps reading if he's mentioned."

http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-putin-meeting-tweet-sentences-2017-7

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A protester was arrested after reportedly making threatening remarks at Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake's Tucson office around 9 a.m. Thursday morning, according to the Pima County Sheriff's Department.
"You know how liberals are going to solve the Republican problem?" the protester asked a staffer, according to Flake's office. "They are going to get better aim. That last guy tried, but he needed better aim. We will get better aim."

Staffers working in Flake's office promptly locked the doors and called the Sheriff's Department, believing the protester's remarks were in reference to the shooting of Louisiana Rep. Steve Scalise on June 14, according to the Pima County Sheriff's Department. Scalise has remained hospitalized for several weeks and was readmitted to the intensive care unit Wednesday night over concerns about a new infection.
The protester was identified by the Pima County Sheriff's Department as 59-year-old Mark Prichard. Prichard was later charged with trespassing, a misdemeanor offense, and "threats and intimidation."
Patrick Diehl, 70, was also arrested later and charged with trespassing after trying to enter the Tucson office. He reportedly attempted to force his way into the office when a staffer opened the door to hand out informational packets, according to the sheriff's department.

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/07/06/politics/protester-arrested-jeff-flake-tuscon-office/index.html

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Any resident in Florida can now challenge what kids learn in public schools, thanks to a new law that science education advocates worry will make it harder to teach evolution and climate change.

The legislation, which was signed by Gov. Rick Scott (R) last week and went into effect Saturday, requires school boards to hire an "unbiased hearing officer" who will handle complaints about instructional materials, such as movies, textbooks and novels, that are used in local schools. Any parent or county resident can file a complaint, regardless of whether they have a student in the school system. If the hearing officer deems the challenge justified, he or she can require schools to remove the material in question.

The statute includes general guidelines about what counts as grounds for removal: belief that the material is "pornographic" or "is not suited to student needs and their ability to comprehend the material presented, or is inappropriate for the grade level and age group."

Proponents of the new law say it makes the challenge process easier for parents and gives residents a greater say in their children's education. And state Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Naples, who sponsored the bill, told Nature in May that his intent wasn't to target any particular subject.

But Glenn Branch, deputy director of the National Council for Science Education, said that affidavits filed by supporters of the bill suggest that science instruction will be a focus of challenges. One affidavit from a Collier County resident complained that evolution and global warming were taught as "reality." Another criticized her child's sixth-grade science curriculum, writing that "the two main theories on the origin of man are the theory of evolution and creationism," and that her daughter had only been taught about evolution.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-florida-science-school-law-20170702-story.html

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When Pakistan clobbered India in the ICC Champions Trophy final on Sunday — pulling off an upset so shocking, ESPN called it "some diamond-studded, galactic-scale nonsense" — flabbergasted fans took to the streets in several countries to celebrate the national cricket team's big win.

>In India, those celebrations got some fans in deep legal trouble.

>Police have arrested at least 19 people across the country on charges of sedition, according to the Times of India.

>"While the entire country was saddened by the defeat, these people were raising slogans in favour of Pakistan and burst crackers on Sunday night, threatening peace in the area," Sanjay Pathak, a police inspector in Madhya Pradesh, a state where 15 men were arrested, told the newspaper.

>"They celebrated with firecrackers, distributing sweets and raising slogans of 'Long live Pakistan,' " another Madhya Pradesh police officer, Ramasray Yadav, told The New York Times. "They expressed hatred toward India and friendship toward Pakistan. They are charged for sedition and criminal conspiracy."

>The Times reports that all the people arrested are Muslims:

>>"The arrests come as some Muslims in India say they feel a sense of rising alienation. There have been episodes of violence, including by vigilante groups that have staged attacks on Muslims and low-caste Hindus suspected of slaughtering cows, which are considered sacred in Hinduism, the dominant religion in India."

>"These arrests are patently absurd, and the 19 men should be released immediately," Asmita Basu, program director of Amnesty International India, said in a statement.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/21/533827013/fans-of-pakistans-cricket-team-arrested-for-sedition-in-india