[Daily Caller] Democratic Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin’s office will not release reported email correspondence with anti-GOP shooter James Hodgkinson.
An Associated Press report says, "Hodgkinson also visited the office of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, whose campaign he had worked on as a volunteer, and was in email contact with the two Democratic senators from his home state."
The "two Democratic senators from his home state" of Illinois would presumably be Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth.
When The Daily Caller reached out to Sen. Durbin’s office, we received this comment, "Mr. Hodgkinson contacted our office to state his opinion on a variety of legislation over the years. Those emails were all given to USCP and are part of the current investigation."
When TheDC asked for more details, or whether they planned to publicly release the emails Hodgkinson sent, no response was received.
TheDC also repeatedly contacted Sen. Duckworth’s office looking for a comment or a release of the emails, but received no response.
Hodgkinson, a left-wing Bernie supporter, allegedly opened fire on a group of GOP Congressman practicing at a baseball field. He shot and injured Louisiana Rep. Steve Scalise, and his social media presence indicated he thought Trump was a "traitor."
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No big deal, this is just politics. The FBI have all of the shooters emails from his account. While I am not fan of Durbin, this is all spin, or notice to him that they have it and to not try and clean their systems.
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Not reassuring to think Clouseau Comey's FBI is on the case. They've already floated the usual "motive may never been known" nonsense.
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I think to myself: "What's he {Dick D.] hiding?"
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If they won't turn over the emails, charge them as accessories to the attempted murder of however many people the wacko shot. Maybe they'll be more willing after a week in general population of the county jail.
[Breitbart] A Theodore, Alabama, Marine Corps veteran took fire then returned it, wounding three home invasion suspects in broad daylight.
Mobile County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) reports that the three suspects "have broken into the man’s home before and threatened to harm the victim if he reported the incident to authorities." The 62-year-old veteran reported that incident anyway, and was ready when suspects attempted to enter the home again.
According to AL.com, when the suspects approached the veteran’s residence for the second time, "they fired several rounds through the front door," hitting the veteran in the shoulder. " The veteran then "returned fire, injuring all three suspects."
One of the suspects remained on scene while two others got into their car and drove to nearby Dollar General Store. "Deputies arrived at the store to find the two suspects on the ground."
The suspects were taken to a hospital and MCSO made clear that they were "in custody" while in the hospital. The homeowner was taken to the hospital to be treated for his shoulder wound as well.
[Dhaka Tribune] The US government has sought help from Bangladesh to obtain the bank and business records of a suspect in a fake jobs scam case.
The US Department of Justice’s Office of International Affairs prepared a letter addressed to family members and relatives of the suspect, Muksedur Rahman, reports Saipan Tribune.
According to the report, Assistant US Attorney James J Benedetto mentioned the letter in documents filed in federal court last week.
Benedetto said six people, including one Bangladeshi, were accused of collecting large amounts of money from 12 people.
Roughly between $15,000 and $20,000 were taken from each of the 12 victims and the majority of the payments allegedly occurred in Bangladesh.
Muksedur and his co-schemers allegedly instructed the victims to make payments to his (Muksedur) various relatives and in-laws living here.
The assistant US attorney said some of the payments were made in cash directly to one of the schemers and some were deposited directly into the accounts of Muksedur’s family members.
He said witnesses who were present when the payments were made will corroborate the cash payments, and business records will corroborate the payments deposited into Muksedur family members’ bank accounts.
The records will be produced in discovery as soon as they are received by the US government.
The defendants were charged with 17 counts such as mail fraud, fraud in foreign labour contracting, and fraud and misuse of visas and permits.
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[Al Jazeera] A massive new international cyberattack via a ransomware virus dubbed Petya has paralysed businesses across Europe and is spreading elsewhere.
Several major corporations on Tuesday said they had been targeted in the cyberattack which started in Ukraine and Russia before hitting other European countries.
Danish shipping giant Maersk, Russia's Rosneft oil firm, British advertising agency WPP and the French industrial group Saint-Gobain all said they came under attack and put protection protocols in place to avoid data loss.
One of the countries particularly hit was Ukraine, where serious intrusions at the power grid, banks and government offices were experienced. Boryspil Airport in the capital, Kiev, was also affected.
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I use Sandboxie on my windows systems and firejail on my Linux systems. There is no excuse for letting yourself be exposed to these attacks.
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Ed,
The tools are free (free-ish, Sandboxie has a premium service). I just mentioned the ones that I use. If you aren't running your browsers (e.g. webmail) sandboxed in something then you are putting yourself at needless risk. The latest Android runs everything sandboxed by default. But not Windows.
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Ed,
One more thing, I run my Linux systems as VirtualBox guests. If anything did get past my hardening (I use Lynis) then I simply reset the guest back to the last snapshot; problem solved.
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Darth,
I keep mine backed up to an external drive but yes. Sandboxes are designed to stop this kind of attack dead in its tracks. Don't surf the internet without it.
Elmiting Angemble5896, I forgot to mention I am that end user they talk about in Microsoft meetings. The sad thing is that my brother and sister are both computer science professors. My father meant me for that profession as well, which in theory was a good idea. But it turns out that being smart is not enough.
WASHINGTON -- Amtrak says there's been a fatal incident involving two people who were struck while on the tracks in Washington.
The railroad says a train traveling from Boston and New York was approaching Washington's Union Station around 11:18 p.m. Tuesday when the two people were struck. Amtrak says none of the train's crew members or 121 passengers was injured.
The National Transportation Safety Board says the two people were CSX Railroad employees, reports CBS Washington affiliate WUSA-TV.
Amtrak later said it is "particularly saddened that incident involved fellow railroaders employed by CSX."
In an online statement Wednesday morning, Amtrak says service was temporarily suspended between Washington and Philadelphia while authorities investigated the incident.
A CSX train was also involved in the incident, according to an NTSB official.
A DC Fire and EMS Tweet said rescue crews found two people already dead. One railroad worker was transported to a local hospital for checkup. There was no initial word on what caused the worker's injuries.
Amtrak spokesman Marc Magliari told WUSA passengers stayed on the train for several hours before being transferred to another train and taken the rest of the way to Union Station.
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Unnamed deaders messing with the tracks, a soft target passenger train stopped for hours, a third man (unnamed) taken for 'evaluation'. Any other country and we would think this was a failed attack.
[Daily Caller] Columbian budget airline VivaColombia renewed its call for "standing seats" in an attempt to reduce ever-increasing flying costs.
VivaColombia, which flies daily from Medellin to Miami, is the latest airline to express interest in vertical seating, The Telegraph reported Tuesday.
"There are people out there right now researching whether you can fly standing up," VivaColombia’s founder and CEO William Shaw said. "We’re very interested in anything that makes travel less expensive."
Airbus pioneered vertical seating in 2003, and in 2010, RyanAir toyed with the same idea, calling vertical seats "bar stools with seat belts."
The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said that seatbelts are necessary to keep passengers safe, adding that there would be many barriers to break before carriers could launch "stand-up" flights.
[Al Jazeera] Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro said on Tuesday that a police helizaped the Supreme Court in Caracas in a confusing incident that he claimed was part of a conspiracy to destabilise his socialist government.
The incident occurred as Maduro was speaking live on state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
to journalists gathered at the presidential palace.
He said two grenades were thrown from a helicopter upon offices of the court but that the Venezuelan special forces repelled what he called a "terrorist attack".
"I have activated the entire armed forces to defend the peace," he added.
But many opponents on social media accused the president himself of trying to spread fear to help justify a crackdown against Venezuelan seeking to block his plans to rewrite the constitution.
Maduro has been facing three months of opposition protests and some dissent from within government ranks.
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Another video posted on social media on Tuesday showed a uniformed man identified as Oscar Pérez, flanked by masked, heavily armed men dressed in uniforms, taking responsibility for the operation. The speaker said he represented a coalition of military, police and civilian personnel who opposed what he called “this transitional, criminal government.”
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Perez is supposed to be an agent of Venezuela's FBI, who stole one of their helicopters, and had it dragging a freedom banner before attacking the court building, and then landing.
Maduro's support is starting to crack.
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Perez is supposed to be an agent of Venezuela's FBI.....
[RUDAW.NET] Leftist rebels in Colombia have turned over almost all of their fighters' individual weapons as part of a historic peace deal reached with the government last year to end a half century of conflict, the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... said Monday.
A U.N. statement said it had received 7,132 weapons belonging to Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia FARC or FARC-EP, is either a Marxist-Leninist revolutionary guerrilla organization or a drug cartel based in Colombia. It claims to represent the rural poor in a struggle against Colombia's wealthier classes, and opposes United States influence in Colombia, neo-imperialism, monopolization of natural resources by multinational corporations, and the usual raft of complaints. It funds itself principally through ransom kidnappings, taxation of the drug trade, extortion, shakedowns, and donations. It has lately begun calling itself Bolivarian and is greatly admired by Venezuela's President-for-Life Chavez, who seemingly fantasizes about living in the woods and kidnapping people himself. He provides FARC with safe areas along the border. fighters. A smaller number of weapons will remain in the hands of guerrillas until Aug. 1, providing protection at 26 rural camps where the FARC's 7,000 fighters are making their transition to civilian life.
The announcement comes a day before President Juan Manuel Santos and the FARC's top commander Rodrigo Londono, better known by his nom de guerre Timochenko, are to meet in one of the rural camps to commemorate the completion of the disarmament process.
The rebels were supposed to have turned in all of their weapons by the end of May under the original terms of the peace deal but there have been numerous delays.
The first year of implementing the peace deal has been behind schedule on everything from building demobilization zones to passing laws to implement the accords. Nonetheless both the FARC and the government say they are making steady progress as the rebels transition to civilian life.
The accord, first signed in November, was narrowly rejected by Colombians in a referendum before being redrafted and pushed through Congress. Critics had said it was too lenient on FARC members.
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[PJ] The Turkish Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) has seized control of at least 50 Syriac churches, monasteries, and cemeteries in Mardin province, report media sources from Turkey:
The Turkish-Armenian daily Agos reports:
After Mardin became a Metropolitan Municipality, its villages were officially turned into neighbourhoods as per the law and attached to the provincial administration. Following the legislative amendment introduced in late 2012, the Governorate of Mardin established a liquidation committee. The Liquidation Committee started to redistribute in the city, the property of institutions whose legal entity had expired. The transfer and liquidation procedures are still ongoing.
In 2016, the Transfer, Liquidation and Redistribution Committee of Mardin Governorate transferred to primarily the Treasury as well as other relevant public institutions numerous churches, monasteries, cemeteries and other assets of the Syriac community in the districts of Mardin.
The Mor Gabriel Monastery Foundation appealed to the decision yet the liquidation committee rejected their appeal last May. The churches, monasteries and cemeteries whose ownerships were given to the Treasury were then transferred to the Diyanet.
[Daily Caller] Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm behind the infamous Trump dossier, is again refusing to disclose the identity of political clients who financed the anti-Trump dirt-digging project.
In a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee sent on Friday, lawyers for Fusion GPS said that disclosing the information about the firm’s opposition research project would undercut its First Amendment privileges and violate confidentiality agreements.
As has been widely reported, an unidentified Republican donor hired Fusion GPS in late 2015 to research Trump. But after the real estate magnate won the Republican primary, the donor dropped from the project. But Fusion GPS soon found another client, this one a Democratic ally of Hillary Clinton’s.
Fusion hired former British spy Christopher Steele to research Trump’s Russia connections. He produced a series of memos now known collectively as the dossier. The salacious document, much of which has been debunked, was leaked to numerous news outlets and published by BuzzFeed on Jan. 10.
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So, they had this 'dossier' that the FBI wanted to read, presumably because they thought it evidentiary in some way or other. OK, that's all well and good. I'm just curious when it was you got to start charging for evidence. Seems as though they used to just pretty much demand you hand it over followed by a herd of them in raid jackets introducing you and your employees to the floor in the event that order was not followed with great immediacy. The of course the real fun begins and they rip the walls out of your various homes and reduce your vehicles to component parts in the parking lot. But these guys get money? Now they don't want to answer questions? Nothing to see here...
[BBC] This Australian can now tap in and out at train stations with a travel card chip implanted in his left hand.
Meow-Ludo Disco Gamma Meow-Meow (yes, that's his legal name) says he had it put under his skin by a professional piercer.
The chip in his Opal card was cut down to 10mm by 6mm for the procedure and is one of several implants. Meow-Ludo says his new implant gives him "an ability not everyone else has".
"If someone stole my wallet I could still get home," he told ABC News.
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If B-movie titles are to be trusted Shark should always come first. So Sharkapache or something would probably be the name when it is fighting Sharktopus near the Sharknado.
[Free Beacon] The Public Theater in New York has received an additional $100,000 grant from the federal government, fresh off its controversy for staging a Julius Caesar production where a Donald Trump lookalike is assassinated.
Just days after controversy over the graphic mock Trump killing began, the National Endowment for the Arts announced its newest round of grants.
The Public Theater received $100,000 for its New York Shakespeare Festival. This time the theater will do performances of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
"Performances will take place outdoors at Central Park's Delacorte Theater, bringing together a diverse audience with renowned classical performers and young, emerging actors of all backgrounds and experience," according to the June 14 grant announcement.
The NEA denied that any previous funding went to the production of Julius Caesar, but said, "In the past, the New York Shakespeare Festival has received project-based NEA grants to support performances of Shakespeare in the Park by the Public Theater."
While the government is not shying away from the theater after the controversy, other corporate sponsors have. Bank of America and Delta Airlines pulled funding following the graphic images from the play, and attention from the Trump family.
"I wonder how much of this ’art' is funded by taxpayers?" asked Donald Trump Jr. in a tweet.
The taxpayer transparency group OpenTheBooks.com reported that the New York Shakespeare Festival, which is the parent company of the Public Theater, has received nearly $30 million in federal, state, and city grants since 2009.
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Why are we still funding a 'great society' program from 50 years ago? Strip the budget of all these 'endowment' programs if nothing more to convince us rubes that they're (half, quarter?) serious about the trillions of dollars of debt.
If only President Obama had done something like this, we wouldn't have had nearly a year of yammering about Russia interference in the election. Hillary Clinton and the Democrats would still have been interfered with, because some people choose to be stupid, but the hysteria would have taken a different form.
[Ynet] President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... 's homeland security adviser has announced a new cybersecurity partnership with Israel.
Tom Bossert says the new working group will focus on key cyber issues and encourage international cooperation. He says the partnership is aimed at "stopping adversaries in networks and identifying ways to hold bad actors responsible."
Bossert spoke at Israel's Cyber Week conference in Tel Aviv.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the conference that his country experiences dozens of cyberattacks each month.
He said the government has created a "cyber net" with dozens of companies to work together on security issues. He says Israel is now ready to cooperate with other countries.
Monday's announcement brings together two cybersecurity powers. Netanyahu says Israel attracts roughly one-fifth of global private investment in cyber security.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Daily Caller] Democratic Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin’s office will not release reported email correspondence with anti-GOP shooter James Hodgkinson.
[Al Jazeera] A massive new international cyberattack via a ransomware virus dubbed Petya has paralysed businesses across Europe and is spreading elsewhere.
Yes, I'd like to 'Sky Miles' upgrade to 'seated' if I may. 
[Al Jazeera] Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro said on Tuesday that a police 
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
[Daily Caller] Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm behind the infamous Trump dossier, is again refusing to disclose the identity of political clients who financed the anti-Trump dirt-digging project.
[Free Beacon] The Public Theater in New York has received an additional $100,000 grant from the federal government, fresh off its controversy for staging a Julius Caesar production where a Donald Trump lookalike is assassinated.
