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Anonymous ID: b55574 May 25, 2018, 9:51 p.m. No.1545276   🗄️.is 🔗kun

An Indiana middle school student armed with two handguns opened fire inside his science classroom Friday, authorities said, wounding a classmate and a teacher whose swift intervention was credited with saving lives.

 

The shooter, who had asked to be dismissed from the class before returning with the guns, was arrested "extremely quickly" after the incident around 9 a.m. at Noblesville West Middle School, police Chief Kevin Jowitt said. Authorities didn't release his name or say whether he had been in trouble before but indicated he likely acted alone.

 

Seventh-grader Ethan Stonebraker said the student was acting suspiciously when he walked into the room while the class was taking a test. He said science teacher Jason Seaman likely averted a catastrophe.

 

"Our science teacher immediately ran at him, swatted a gun out of his hand and tackled him to the ground," Stonebraker said. "If it weren't for him, more of us would have been injured for sure."

 

Stonebraker told ABC News that Seaman threw a basketball at the shooter and ran toward the bullets as screaming students sought cover behind a table.

 

He said he also knew the suspected gunman, whom he described as "a nice kid most of the times" and said he often joked with the classmates.

 

"It's just a shock he would do something like that," Stonebraker said.

 

The attack comes a week after an attack at a high school in Santa Fe, Texas, that killed eight students and two teachers, and months after the school attack that killed 17 people in Parkland, Florida. The Florida attack inspired students from that school and others throughout the country to call for more restrictions on access to guns.

 

Seaman's brother, Jeremy Seaman, told The Indianapolis Star that his brother was shot three times and was undergoing surgery. He said he was conscious after the shooting and talked with his wife, telling her he was OK.

 

Jason Seaman, 29, of Noblesville was in good condition Friday night, police spokesman Lt. Bruce Barnes said. The injured student, a girl, was in critical condition, Barnes said. Her name has not been released.

 

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/midwest/ct-noblesville-west-middle-school-20180525-story.html#nt=oft13a-1gp1

Anonymous ID: b55574 May 25, 2018, 9:54 p.m. No.1545297   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5299 >>5306 >>5308 >>5309 >>5334 >>5478

Judge Orders Alaska Prison to Stop Serving Pork Products to Muslim Inmates During Ramadan

 

A judge has ruled that a prison in Alaska needs to provide meals that do not contain pork to Muslim inmates who were allegedly being “starved” after they were fed pork products during Ramadan.

 

The decision was handed down by the judge on Friday, according to the Council on American-Islamic Relations. The decision comes after CAIR filed a lawsuit on Tuesday on behalf of two Muslim inmates at the Anchorage Correctional Complex.

 

The suit claimed the correctional officers at the jail left Muslim inmates “starved” because they were not receiving proper meals during Ramadan. CAIR said in a statement that the two inmates were given “less than half the calories they require—as little as 500 calories on some days—which amounts to a starvation diet.”

 

http://www.newsweek.com/ramadan-cair-muslims-alaska-department-corrections-lawsuit-945434

Anonymous ID: b55574 May 25, 2018, 9:58 p.m. No.1545332   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5351 >>5614

Wining some more. AWESOME!

 

Trump to Save $100 Million by Slashing Use of Govt. Time on Union Work

 

President Donald Trump ordered a major overhaul of the civil service system on Friday via three executive orders, according to senior administration officials.

 

One of the orders will significantly limit the amount of time public employees can spend working for unions while still being paid by the government. The government expects the order to save taxpayers $100 million over the course of a year, according to a senior administration official.

 

Nearly 1,000 employees spent at least half of their taxpayer-funded time working for unions in 2017, according to a memo by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. American taxpayers paid $177.2 million in 2016 for the time government employees spent performing work for unions, according to the Office of Personnel Management.

 

Trump’s executive order limits the amount of time federal employees can use for union work to 25 percent. Employees will also no longer be allowed to use taxpayer-funded time to lobby Congress on behalf of unions. The order also prohibits the use of government funds on union appeals against the firing of government workers.

 

The federal government will also start charging union rent for the use of office space as well as travel costs incurred by employees who spend time working for unions on the taxpayers’ dime.

 

“Dentists at the Department of Veterans Affairs, air traffic controllers at the Department of Transportation, and tax examiners at the Department of the Treasury are being paid for work they were not hired to do without doing the work they were hired to do,” states a memo from the Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

 

For example, an employee at the Department of Transportation spent 100 percent of his or her time working for a union in 2017 and was paid $187,000 by the government. A nurse anesthetist at the Department of Veterans Affairs made over $190,000 while spending all of her time working for a union.

 

The term used for the time government employees spend working for unions is “official time.” In 2017, 221 government workers spent at least half their time working for unions while being paid over $100,000 per year.

 

The second executive order will make it easier for government agencies to fire employees for egregious misconduct. A senior administration official cited research showing that government workers were 44 times less likely to be fired after their first probationary year compared to private sector workers.

 

The order will also eliminate an Obama-era policy that required agencies who did not fire one employee for a specific type of misconduct to not fire any other employee for the same type of misconduct.

 

The order also prohibits agencies from hiding information from each other. A senior administration official explained that departments sometimes make deals with employees who they are firing to not disclose information to other agencies, which results in workers who were fired for misconduct and other issues to go on to secure jobs in other government agencies.

 

The third executive order targets union contracts. These contracts often include provisions that make it harder to fire workers. Meanwhile, the unions often negotiate these contracts while being paid by taxpayers, in effect circumventing the democratic process while using taxpayer money to ask for more taxpayer money.

 

The order directs all government agencies to renegotiate their union contracts and requires all the contracts to be posted online for the public to review. The executive order also creates a centralized government body to review and negotiate the contracts.

 

https://www.theepochtimes.com/trump-to-save-100-million-by-slashing-use-of-govt-time-on-union-work_2538537.html

Anonymous ID: b55574 May 25, 2018, 10:13 p.m. No.1545450   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5664

In my opinion, this is not a good sign. This maybe a warning sign?

 

FBI warns Russians hacked hundreds of thousands of routers

 

(Reuters) - The FBI warned on Friday that Russian computer hackers had compromised hundreds of thousands of home and office routers and could collect user information or shut down network traffic.

 

The U.S. law enforcement agency urged the owners of many brands of routers to turn them off and on again and download updates from the manufacturer to protect themselves.

 

The warning followed a court order Wednesday that allowed the FBI to seize a website that the hackers planned to use to give instructions to the routers. Though that cut off malicious communications, it still left the routers infected, and Friday’s warning was aimed at cleaning up those machines.

 

Infections were detected in more than 50 countries, though the primary target for further actions was probably Ukraine, the site of many recent infections and a longtime cyberwarfare battleground.

 

In obtaining the court order, the Justice Department said the hackers involved were in a group called Sofacy that answered to the Russian government.

 

Sofacy, also known as APT28 and Fancy Bear, has been blamed for many of the most dramatic Russian hacks, including that of the Democratic National Committee during the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign.

 

Earlier, Cisco Systems Inc said the hacking campaign targeted devices from Belkin International’s Linksys, MikroTik, Netgear Inc, TP-Link and QNAP.

 

An FBI official told Reuters that the kinds of devices known to be affected by the hack were purchased by users at electronic stores or online.

 

However, the FBI was not ruling out the possibility that routers provided to customers by internet service companies could also be affected, the official added.

 

Cisco shared the technical details of its investigation with the U.S. and Ukrainian governments. Western experts say Russia has conducted a series of attacks against companies in Ukraine for more than a year amid armed hostilities between the two countries, causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damages and at least one electricity blackout.

 

The Kremlin on Thursday denied the Ukrainian government’s accusation that Russia was planning a cyber attack on Ukrainian state bodies and private companies ahead of the Champions League soccer final in Kiev on Saturday.

 

“The size and scope of the infrastructure by VPNFilter malware is significant,” the FBI said, adding that it is capable of rendering peoples’ routers “inoperable.”

 

It said the malware is hard to detect, due to encryption and other tactics.

 

The FBI urged people to reboot their devices to temporarily disrupt the malware and help identify infected devices.

 

People should also consider disabling remote-management settings, changing passwords and upgrading to the latest firmware.

 

Reporting by Sarah N. Lynch in Washington and Joseph Menn in San Francisco; Editing by David Gregorio

 

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cyber-routers/fbi-says-foreign-hackers-have-compromised-home-router-devices-idUSKCN1IQ2DY

Anonymous ID: b55574 May 25, 2018, 10:21 p.m. No.1545514   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5547 >>5580

Get ready for heavy censoring.

 

ussian disinformation has become a problem for European governments. In the last two years, Kremlin-backed campaigns have spread false stories alleging that French President Emmanuel Macron was backed by the “gay lobby,” fabricated a story of a Russian-German girl raped by Arab migrants, and spread a litany of conspiracy theories about the Catalan independence referendum, among other efforts.

 

Europe is finally taking action. In January, Germany’s Network Enforcement Act came into effect. Designed to limit hate speech and fake news online, the law prompted both France and Spain to consider counterdisinformation legislation of their own. More important, in April the European Union unveiled a new strategy for tackling online disinformation. The EU plan focuses on several sensible responses: promoting media literacy, funding a third-party fact-checking service, and pushing Facebook and others to highlight news from credible media outlets, among others. Although the plan itself stops short of regulation, EU officials have not been shy about hinting that regulation may be forthcoming. Indeed, when Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg appeared at an EU hearing this week, lawmakers reminded him of their regulatory power after he appeared to dodge their questions on fake news and extremist content.

 

The recent European actions are important first steps. Ultimately, none of the laws or strategies that have been unveiled so far will be enough. The problem is that technology advances far more quickly than government policies.

 

https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/05/25/disinformation-wars/

Anonymous ID: b55574 May 25, 2018, 10:24 p.m. No.1545546   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5563 >>5614

Wonderful.

 

The president of the University of Southern California, C.L. Max Nikias, is stepping down, according to an announcement by the university's Board of Trustees. The resignation comes as USC is embroiled in a series of scandals that have tarnished the public image of the prestigious private institution in Los Angeles.

 

The most recent scandal involves a campus gynecologist, Dr. George Tyndall, who is alleged to have made sexual comments and inappropriately touched patients during pelvic exams. More than 300 people, including many former female student patients, reported his misconduct dating back to the early 1990s.

 

As The Associated Press reported:

 

"Tyndall routinely made crude comments, took inappropriate photographs and forced plaintiffs to strip naked and groped them under the guise of medical treatment for his 'sexual gratification,' according to civil lawsuits filed this week.

 

"At least a dozen lawsuits have been filed so far and police are interviewing alleged victims to see if any crime was committed."

 

The university's internal investigation determined many allegations were true and Tyndall was allowed to resign, but USC administrators never reported the incident to the California Medical Board, nor did they notify the patients. As a result of that and other scandals, several hundred faculty signed a letter saying Nikias had "lost the moral authority to lead." The Board of Trustees did not say when Nikias would leave his post.

 

Earlier this week, the Board of Trustees had issued a statement saying that it while it is "deeply troubled by distressing reports about Dr. George Tyndall," it still has "full confidence" in president Nikias's leadership.

 

Nikias has been a prolific fundraiser during his 8-year tenure as USC president.

 

The Los Angeles Times, whose reports uncovered the complaints about Tyndall, detailed Nikias' accomplishments.

 

"The cornerstone of Nikias' legacy is a $6-billion campaign launched in 2011, then described as the largest such drive in academic history. The university collected gifts and pledges to surpass the goal about 18 months ahead of schedule, according to USC. For his 'exceptional progress' in the $6-billion campaign, trustees awarded Nikias a one-time $1.5-million bonus three years ago, making him the third-highest paid college president in the nation that year."

 

But Nikias' handling of the Tyndall scandal and other controversies, including misconduct by two former medical school deans, one of whom lead a double life using drugs and partying with addicts and prostitutes, lead to mounting pressure for the Board of Trustees to take action.

 

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/26/614609644/usc-president-c-l-max-nikias-stepping-down-amid-gynecologist-scandal