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Bibi1581 Blog For 08/01/2018: Morning Edition

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1…………> Dixon Security Breach: Hackers

 

Dixons Carphone disclosed a massive data breach that took place last year involving 10 million customers, up from its original estimate of 1.2 million, and that has been investigating the hack since it was discovered in June.

Personal information, names, addresses and email addresses might have been accessed last year, but no bank details were taken, and no evidence that fraud had resulted from the breach has been discovered.

The hackers also got access to records of 5.9 million payments cards, but the chip and pin system protected nearly all accounts, with Dixons saying it was “very sorry for any distress” caused and it would be apologizing to customers soon.

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-45016906

 

 

 

 

 

2…………> In The Heat Of The Day: Hostility

 

In a classical resolution of dialectic confrontations, President Trump supporters have been caught on video hurling sustained insults at “Fake News” journalists following one of the US president’s “Make America Great Again” rallies.

Dedicated supporters wearing MAGA hats and holding pro-Trump and anti-Deep State signs shouted and swore at the assembled press, with many of the mainly white crowd holding up a middle finger. One Trump supporter showed off an “F*** the media” t-shirt, while others could be heard branding the press “a piece of s***” and shouting, “Stop lying.” One woman appeared to swear at deeply unpopular Jim Acosta, a CNN news anchor while shouting: “Hey Jim, you suck!” A handful of supporters showed off signs peddling popular rightwing conspiracy theories.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-supporters-filmed-hurling-sustained-101921395.html

 

 

 

3…………> “Get Mueller, Jeff”: Trump

 

President Trump has been saying that he regrets picking Sessions as the nation’s top law enforcement officer for a quite long time:

“The Russian Witch Hunt Hoax continues, all because Jeff Sessions didn’t tell me he was going to recuse himself. I would have quickly picked someone else. So much time and money wasted, so many lives ruined,” Trump tweeted in June, as Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller, a registered Republican, recently charged 12 Russian intelligence officials in connection with the 2016 hack of the Democratic National Committee’s computer server — bringing the total number of individual indictments to 32.

President Trump called on Attorney General Jeff Sessions to shut down special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into the Trump campaign’s contacts with Russia and Trump’s obstruction of the probe.

“This is a terrible situation, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions should stop this Rigged Witch Hunt right now before it continues to stain our country any further. Bob Mueller is conflicted, and his 17 Angry Democrats that are doing his dirty work are a disgrace to the USA!” The White House did not immediately return a request for comment.

 

https://sputniknews.com/us/201808011066858705-sessions-trump-witch-hunt/

 

 

 

4…………> “HIre Legal Americans, Not Illegal Entrants”: A New Law

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, July 31, 2018

Departments of Justice and Labor Formalize New Partnership to Protect U.S. Workers From Discrimination and Combat Visa Abuse.

Today, the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division and the Department of Labor (DOL) expanded their collaboration to better protect U.S. workers from discrimination by employers that prefer to hire temporary visa workers over qualified U.S. workers. This new partnership, memorialized in a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), establishes protocols for the agencies to share information, refer matters between them, and train each other’s employees, with the goal of better protecting U.S. workers. This partnership will enhance the Civil Rights Division’s efforts to stop companies from discriminating against U.S. workers and assist the Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration in identifying noncompliance with its foreign labor certification process.

“Employers should hire workers based on their skills, experience, and authorization to work; not based on discriminatory preferences that violate the law,” said Acting Assistant Attorney General John Gore of the Civil Rights Division. “Our partnership with DOL, formalized today, significantly enhances the Civil Rights Division’s ability to identify employers that favor temporary visa holders over U.S. workers who can do the job.”

“Streamlining the process for information sharing between the Department of Labor and the Department of Justice will help protect U.S. workers from unlawful discrimination,” said Rosemary Lahasky, Deputy Assistant Secretary for DOL’s Employment and Training Administration. “This partnership will help ensure U.S. workers are prioritized to fill jobs.”

 

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/departments-justice-and-labor-formalize-new-partnership-protect-us-workers-discrimination-a-0

 

 

 

 

5…………> “Goodbye Gun Control”: 3D Weapons

 

A US Federal judge had blocked the planned release of 3D-printed-gun blueprints hours before they were set to hit the Internet, pointing out that the publication of the files is now illegal under federal law, and that the accessibility of 3D printers could lead to ‘irreparable harm” to citizens.

The decision blocked a settlement President Donald Trump’s administration had reached with a Texas-based company, which initially said it planned to put files online on Wednesday (local time).

Gun-control proponents are concerned the weapons made from 3D printers are untraceable, undetectable “ghost” firearms that pose a threat to global security. Some gun rights groups say the technology is expensive, the guns are unreliable and the threat is being overblown.

 

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-08-01/us-judge-blocks-3d-printed-gun-blueprints-hours-before-release/10061598

 

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Bibi1581 Blog For 04/29/2018: Evening Edition

1…………> Guatemalan Slave Drivers: WA

 
 Two Guatemalan nationals identified as Antonia Marcos Diego and her husband, Antonio Francisco-Pablo,  were today sentenced to prison in Tacoma, Washington, for their scheme to exploit other Guatemalan nationals for their own financial gain, by luring relatives with promises of better life, but instead loading them with debt and threats of deportation.
 

Antonio Francisco-Pablo, 60, residing in Forks, Washington, was sentenced to three years in prison for one count of forced labor. Antonia Marcos Diego, 42, also residing in Forks, Washington, was sentenced to one year of probation for one count of document servitude in furtherance of forced labor. At the sentencing hearing, U.S. District Judge Ronald B. Leighton described their crimes as a “despicable offense” and a “serious degree of exploitation.” 


“The defendants forced their own family members to work for no pay after luring them to the United States on false promises of a better life,” said Acting Assistant Attorney General John Gore. “The Department of Justice will continue to prosecute labor traffickers, who exploit vulnerable individuals for their own greed and erode the American ideals of freedom, opportunity, and the rule of law.”

Both defendants will pay $18,950 in restitution to the victims. Francisco-Pablo was in the U.S. unlawfully, and it is virtually certain that he will be deported following his prison term. Antonia Marcos Diego will be on probation for one year.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-guatemalan-nationals-sentenced-connection-labor-trafficking-scheme-and-forced-labor-other

2…………> Dirty Money: Scotland LLP’s

Following a review of Scottish limited partnerships (SLPs) by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), the UK government unveiled plans to crack down on a business scheme which it says has been used to launder dirty foreign money, illegal activity that has been used to launder $80bn from Russia and into the EU markets.


“For some time we have called on the UK government to tighten the regulatory framework around Scottish Limited Partnerships. Therefore we welcome that new regulations are now being introduced on beneficial ownership. This is a complex landscape and we await with interest the detail of any additional new measures, following the wider review of limited partnership law. We remain fully committed to ensuring that SLPs engaged in criminal activity and those individuals and organizations who help facilitate that activity is held accountable for their actions,” A Scottish government spokesman declared. 

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-43935839

 

 

3…………> Neo-Nazis Raising: Reichburger

While The Islamic Merkeldom of Germany’s domestic intelligence service has looked the other way when the so-called “Middle Eastern migrants”, including military age Al Nusra Brigade and IS young punks are committing crimes, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) has spent time and effort to estimate that there are about 18,000 people supporting the far-right Reichsbürger movement — about 80 percent more than in 2016, and about 950 of them were classified as far-right extremists.

The term Reichsbürger is used as a label for disorganized groups that reject the legitimacy of Germany’s government, rooted in the belief that the 1937 borders of the German Empire still exist and today’s government is an administrative construct in a country still occupied by foreign powers. Many subscribe to far-right or anti-Semitic ideologies.

http://p.dw.com/p/2wrIx

 

 

 

 

4………….> A Middle Finger To US: Caravan

About 400 migrants from a Central American caravan are at the US-Mexico border, with some climbing the border wall ahead of making formal asylum claims that could land them in detention centers.

The month-long caravan that at one point gathered 1,500 immigrants from Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador angered President Donald Trump who pressured Mexico to stop the migrants before they reached the border, linking Mexican efforts to stem the flow of Central Americans to the future of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which is currently being renegotiated in Washington.

“I feel a little cold. I feel anxious,” said Jaime Alexander from El Salvador in the morning, shaking slightly on his way to the Tijuana, Mexico side of the border fence on a Pacific Ocean beach.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-04-30/migrant-caravan-gathers-on-us-mexico-border/9709848

 

 

 

 

5…………> Austria-China Train: Silk Road

A “Silk Road” train, carrying 41 containers of goods valued at 1.5 million U.S. dollars, including LED displays, tires, and lamps, departed from Chengdu, capital of southwest China’s Sichuan Province on the morning of April 12, and arrived in Vienna, Austria on Friday, April 29, an event which Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen described as a symbol of the cooperation between China and Austria.

It traveled over 6000 miles in 15 days through Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine, and Slovakia, and slowly pulled into Vienna South Freight Center. From the station, the goods will be transported to the destination.

“This is really a symbol of the cooperation between China and Austria,” Van der Bellen told Xinhua. “We really hope this train is the first step of closer cooperation between China and Austria.”

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-04/28/c_137142311.htm

 

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