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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cyber-congress-idUSKBN19J28W?feedType=RSS&feedName=politicsNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Reuters%2FPoliticsNews+%28Reuters+Politics+News%29

>The top Democrat on the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee said on Wednesday the panel had asked election officials in 21 U.S. states to make public information about efforts to hack their systems during last year's election.

>Some lawmakers have expressed frustration that the information has been kept secret, saying it impedes the country's ability to prevent such hacks in the future.

>"This week the Chairman (Republican Senator Richard Burr) and I sent a letter to all relevant state election officials asking that this information be made public," Senator Mark Warner said at an intelligence committee hearing.

>"I do not see how Americans are made safer when they do not know which state elections systems Russia tried to hack," Warner said in his opening statement.

>A Homeland Security Department official testified to the intelligence committee on June 21 that Russian hackers targeted 21 U.S. state election systems in the 2016 presidential race and a small number were breached.

>Warner said he has asked the Department of Homeland Security to share the names of the 21 states, which have not been publicly identified. [L1N1JI1R9]

>Warner said he has asked the Department of Homeland Security to share the names of the 21 states, which have not been publicly identified.

>The committee held a hearing on Wednesday on Russian efforts to influence elections in Europe, and European nations' responses.

>U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that Russian President Vladimir Putin's government was behind efforts to meddle in the U.S. election to boost Republican President Donald Trump's chances of winning the White House.

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http://www.businessinsider.com/bacteria-from-faeces-found-in-starbucks-costa-and-caffe-nero-ice-drinks-2017-6

The BBC's consumer affairs "Watchdog" program found that samples of iced drinks from Starbucks and two other UK chains including Costa Coffee and Caffe Nero contained "varying levels of the bacteria."

Along with the ice, researchers also studied the cleanliness of tables, trays, and high chairs at 30 of the coffee chain branches.

Costa Coffee was the worst offender, with seven out of 10 samples "found to be contaminated with bacteria found in feces."

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Open warfare between corporations: It Begins: WalMart Warns Truckers It Will No Longer Work With Them If They Move Goods For Amazon

In a note this morning from Deutsche Bank's freight and logistics analyst Amit Mehrotra, he notes that the "WMT vs. AMZN battle is heating up" and points to a report by DV Velocity, according to which a well respected transportation industry consultant told attendees of a logistics conference that Walmart (WMT) is telling trucking companies that it will no longer do business with them if they continue moving goods for Amazon (AMZN).


http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-06-28/it-begins-walmart-warns-truckers-it-will-no-longer-work-them-if-they-move-goods-amaz

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>man finds little girl wandering around lost at recreation center
>tries to help her find parents
>gets jumped and beaten by guys who think he's kidnapping her
>parents later post his photo and call him a predator on facebook even after police cleared him of any wrongdoing

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/06/florida-man-beaten-by-angry-mob-and-shamed-online-after-trying-to-help-lost-2-year-old-find-her-family/
https://patch.com/florida/lakeland/man-beaten-facebook-shamed-helping-lost-girl-cops

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>A comprehensive study released this month, titled “Antisemitic violence in Europe,” provides insight into the the continent’s growing anti-Semitism problem and the perpetrators of anti-Jewish attacks in France, the UK, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Russia.

>The University of Oslo Center for Research on Extremism finds that Islamic extremists, followed by left-wing extremists, are the most common perpetrators of anti-Semitic crimes, according to a survey conducted among the countries’ Jewish populations.

>Respondents in France, Sweden, Germany, and the UK “most often perceived the perpetrator(s)” of an anti-Semitic attack to be “someone with a Muslim extremist view.”

>The study quashed the theory promulgated by some “anti-Zionists” that somehow anti-Semitic violence is caused by Israel and its occasional clashes with its Arab neighbors. The university study found that there is no “direct causal link” between Arab-Israeli feuds and the rise of European violence against Jews, but it sometimes acts as an enabler of violence for individuals who already hold extremist views.

>The climate of anti-Semitism in European countries has forced Jews there to flee to Israel and America. Last year, 5,000 Jews left France for Israel. When surveyed, one-third of European Jews said they were considering leaving Europe.

>As the Jewish population in Europe continues to decline, Muslim populations continue to surge. This is largely due to two factors: Islamic migration into Europe, and the fact that Muslim families have over three children per couple. In 2015, some 1.3 million migrants arrived in Europe from the Middle East and North Africa.

https://www.conservativereview.com/articles/islamic-extremists-leftist-most-threaten-european-jews

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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-northkorea-detainee-professor-idUSKBN19H2DP

>The University of Delaware has cut ties with an anthropology professor who posted on Facebook that an American student who died last week after his release from a North Korean prison "got exactly what he deserved."

>Otto Warmbier, the University of Virginia student, was "typical of a mindset of a lot of the young, white, rich, clueless males who come into my classes," wrote Katherine Dettwyler, 62, who taught at the university during the spring semester under a now-expired contract.

>"These are the same kids who cry about their grades because they didn’t think they’d really have to read and study the material to get a good grade," the adjunct professor said in a comment about a National Review article.

Dettwyler further wrote: (pulled from Wikipedia)
>“His parents ultimately are to blame for his growing up thinking he could get away with whatever he wanted. Maybe in the US, where young, white, rich, clueless white males routinely get away with raping women. Not so much in North Korea."

So, what was it /pol/lacks were saying about the "oppression" of white males at the hands of irreproachable feminists? I'm quite sure that making a retarded statement - regardless of one's partisan leanings - will almost always result in public backlash here in the U.S. Let's also not forget Kathy Griffin's latest publicity stunt involving a certain president's severed head.

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http://thehill.com/homenews/news/339700-trump-lawyer-sekulow-directed-millions-to-family-with-nonprofits-report

>Conservative attorney Jay Sekulow has for years used a network of nonprofit organizations to route payments and property deals to himself and his family, according to a Guardian report published Tuesday.

>Sekulow's nonprofit Christian Advocates Serving Evangelism (CASE) and its sister organization, the American Center for Legal Justice, have paid millions of dollars to the Sekulow family, as well as companies tied to the high-profile attorney.

>The payments were first reported by the Legal Times in 2005.

>For example, according to the Guardian, a law firm co-owned by Sekulow called the Constitutional Litigation and Advocacy Group has received more than $25 million for legal work since 2000.

>Another company owned by Sekulow, Regency Productions, was paid $11.3 million by the nonprofits for production services.

>Sekulow's public profile has grown in recent weeks after he was hired by President Trump to help him navigate the special counsel and congressional probes into possible collusion between his campaign and Russia.

>The Guardian report also details millions of dollars in personal payments and compensation paid to Sekulow, his wife, his children, his brother, his sister-in-law and his niece and nephew.

>Sekulow himself has been paid $3.3 million, while his wife has received $1.2 million for her work as Case's secretary and treasurer.

>Since 2000, a company owned by Sekulow's sister-in-law Kim Sekulow has been paid $6.2 million for production services and for the lease of a private jet, which it co-owned with Regency Productions.

>Sekulow's brother Gary has also received $9.2 million in benefits and salary from the nonprofits, according to the Guardian, which also reported that his tax filings say he works 40 hours a week for each nonprofit organization.

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The hacking of state and local election databases in 2016 was more extensive than previously reported, including at least one successful attempt to alter voter information, and the theft of thousands of voter records that contain private information like partial Social Security numbers, current and former officials tell TIME.

The fact that private data was stolen from states is separately providing investigators a previously unreported line of inquiry in the probes into Russian attempts to influence the election. In Illinois, more than 90% of the nearly 90,000 records stolen by Russian state actors contained drivers license numbers, and a quarter contained the last four digits of voters’ Social Security numbers, according to Ken Menzel, the General Counsel of the State Board of Elections.

http://time.com/4828306/russian-hacking-election-widespread-private-data/

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#trump #gop #trumpcare #gop

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/whos-afraid-of-trump-not-enough-republicans--at-least-for-now/2017/06/27/cee56720-5b57-11e7-9b7d-14576dc0f39d_story.html?utm_term=.2ea9e85063fd

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/27/us/politics/trump-campaign-chiefs-firm-got-17-million-from-pro-russia-party.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

>Paul Manafort, who was forced out as President Trump’s campaign chairman last summer after five months of infighting and criticism about his business dealings with pro-Russian interests, disclosed Tuesday that his consulting firm had received more than $17 million over two years from a Ukrainian political party with links to the Kremlin.

>The filing serves as a retroactive admission that Mr. Manafort performed work in the United States on behalf of a foreign power — Ukraine’s Party of Regions — without disclosing it at the time, as required by law. The Party of Regions is the political base of former President Viktor F. Yanukovych, who fled to Russia during a popular uprising in 2014.

>The disclosure hints at the vast fortunes available to top American political consultants plying their trade in other countries.

>It was not immediately clear if Mr. Manafort would be required to pay any fines for the late filing. He has maintained that a majority of his work for Mr. Yanukovych was political consulting in Ukraine, where his firm, Davis Manafort International, operated an office at the time.

>The Party of Regions employed Mr. Manafort to help rebrand Mr. Yanukovych and his party, which was long known as tilting toward Russia, as modernizers favoring closer ties to the European Union. All the work disclosed by Mr. Manafort on Tuesday predated Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign.

>Mr. Manafort’s filing indicates that he was retained by the Party of Regions to help elect national and regional candidates in Ukraine and to liaise with American diplomats in Kiev, the capital, who were monitoring elections there.

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Three CNN employees have handed in their resignations over a retracted story linking President Trump to Russia, the network announced Monday.

Thomas Frank, who wrote the story in question; Eric Lichtblau, an editor in the unit; and Lex Haris, who oversaw the unit, have all left CNN.

“In the aftermath of the retraction of a story published on CNN.com, CNN has accepted the resignation of the employees involved in the story’s publication,” a network spokesperson said in a statement Monday.

On Thursday, CNN investigative reporter Thomas Frank published a report involving an investigation of a Russian investment fund with possible ties to several Trump associates.

According to CNN, an internal investigation found that “some standard editorial processes were not followed when the article was published.”

Citing a single unnamed source, the story reported that Congress was investigating a “Russian investment fund with ties to Trump officials.”

CNN explained Monday that “these types of stories” usually would go through several departments, including fact-checkers, journalism standards experts and lawyers.

But the network says there was a “breakdown in editorial workflow” which “disturbed the CNN executives who learned about it.”

The network’s investigative unit was told during a meeting on Monday that the retraction did not necessarily mean the facts of the story were wrong. But, rather, “the story wasn’t solid enough to publish as-is,” according to one of the people briefed on the investigation.

The story, which only appeared on the network’s site, was quickly disputed on Friday, as one of the people mentioned in the story — Trump ally Anthony Scaramucci — took issue with Frank’s reporting, insisting he “did nothing wrong.”
http://www.thewrap.com/three-cnn-employees-resign-retracted-story-russia-ties/

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A phenomenon dubbed "pornosexuality" has emerged where people prefer online porn to sex with real people, it has been claimed.

The term describes someone whose "sexual orientation is linked solely to porn", according to Medical Daily.

One self-identified pornosexual quoted by the website said: "If I had to choose to have one or the other for the rest of my life, I would choose porn over real sex any day."

The availability of free, amateur porn online and the anonymity it offers is identified by Medical Daily as a factor behind the rise in the phenomenon.

In 1991, there were fewer than 90 porn magazines in the US, according to Medical Daily, compared to millions of websites today.

Pornosexuality is said to be particularly common among young people as they have had access to the internet since puberty and porn is therefore more likely to have been formative in their sexual development.

Christene Lozano, a licensed marriage and family therapist and certified sex addiction therapist, said that some find porn more "convenient" than sex with a real person.

"The convenience of getting off online without the potential work, vulnerability, intimacy, and connection with others can be appealing to some," she told the website.

Another marriage, family and sex therapist, Amanda Pasciucco, put the phenomenon down to a fear of rejection: "Unfortunately, in my years of practicing sex therapy, anxiety and fear of rejection has led to people identifying as pornosexuals," she said.

Young men more likely than women to identify as pornosexuals as they are generally more likely to view porn.

The comments come after the NSPCC said in March that some children as young as 12 worry they may be "addicted" to watching porn.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/07/rise-pornosexual-increasing-numbers-shun-sex-real-people/

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>>India arrests 15 for cheering Pakistan in Champions Trophy

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-40341891

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Help support our non-supported friends as Ohio tries to ruin Comm Fest.

http://614now.com/2017/uncategorized/comfest-to-file-lawsuit-to-keep-toplessness-alcohol