*Macron Campaign Says It Was Hacked
French presidential candidate
Emmanuel Macron’s campaign alleged late
Friday that it was the victim of a cyberattack, just two days before voters head to the polls to choose a new president. Nine gigabytes of data, including a trove of alleged campaign emails, were posted anonymously online
on Friday evening, just hours before official campaigning was set to end. The documents have not been authenticated, and it is not yet clear who perpetrated the alleged cyberattack. The campaign said in a statement that it “has been the victim of a massive and coordinated hack this evening which has given rise to the diffusion on social media of various internal information.” Macron, the liberal centrist candidate, is facing off against far-right National Front leader
Marine Le Pen in the country’s run-off election. Le Pen has praised Russian President
Vladimir Putin—who has been accused of ordering similar hackings of U.S. political institutions during last year’s campaign—and she visited him in Moscow earlier this year. Last month, Macron’s campaign blacklisted Russia Today, the Kremlin-backed propaganda outlet, from covering its campaign events. Putin said earlier this week, “We never interfere in the political life and the political processes of other countries
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*Report: Pentagon to Lease Trump Tower Unit for Nuclear ‘Football’
The U.S. Defense Department is preparing to lease out a privately owned apartment in Trump Tower to store PresidentTrump’s nuclear “football,” the device that holds the nuclear codes, Reuters reported late Friday. Citing a letter from the Pentagon to Representative Jackie Speier, a Democrat on the House Armed Services and intelligence committees, the report said the Defense Department has stressed that the move would not financially benefit Trump in any way. “We are not aware of any means through which the President would personally benefit from a Government lease of this space,” Defense Department official James MacStravic was cited as saying in the letter. The letter also said the deal was “typical of support provided” to former U.S. presidents at their residences, though it’s not clear if this would be the first time the Defense Department is storing classified information on that scale outside the White House. The move comes amid concerns about Trump’s potential conflict of interest in conducting business at his properties – both in terms of the financial benefit to him and the safety of classified information. The Government Accountability Office has already begun a review of one high-profile incident in which Trump reviewed classified information with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe while surrounded by guests at his Mar-A-Lago resort in Miami Beach in February. No further details on the cost of the lease or the owners of the apartment have been released
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*Media Expert: YouTube Loses Major Advertisers Over Offensive Content:
Last month, YouTube lost 5 percent of its top advertisers in the US and Canada following a global uproar over its placement of ads from big companies alongside videos created by neo-Nazis and ISIS supporters according to media expert and author
Michael Levine () . “YouTube suffered a decline in the number of Google Preferred customers in the US and Canada for the first time this year” said Levine. Google Preferred is a program where advertisers can match themselves to highly trafficked videos of certain themes such as music or news.
*WTF? Dennis Rodman Says Kim Jong Un is ‘Just Like Anybody Else’
With the free world on eggshells over North Korea’s nukes, Dennis Rodman insists in a new interview that his “little guy” pal Kim Jong Un is “just like anybody else,” and even told him, “I don’t want to bomb anyone.” He adds that the kooky, missile-parading despot loves the US so much he listens to the “Rocky” and “Dallas” theme songs for hours on end. Rodman has visited North Korea six times since 2013 and is so close with its supreme leader, he explains to DuJour Magazine,“No one’s ever held his baby before but me.” “When he’s around his people, he’s just like anybody else,” he adds of Kim. “He jokes and loves playing basketball, table tennis, pool. They love American ’80s music. They do karaoke . . . He has this 13-piece girls’ band with violins . . . He loves the Doors and Jimi Hendrix . . . When I first went, the live band only played two songs for four hours: the theme songs from ‘Rocky’ and ‘Dallas.’”
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*LBN-BUSINESS INSIDER: ***As investors descend on Nebraska by the thousands to query the “Oracle of Omaha” this weekend, they’ll likely bring more questions than he cares to answer. Berkshire Hathaway, the investing conglomerate headed by folksy billionaire Warren Buffett, on Friday revealed an ugly first-quarter profit drop of 27 percent, fueled by a loss from insurance underwriting. Net income fell to $2,469 per Class A share — 27 percent less than last year’s $3,401, and well shy of Wall Street’s expectations of $2,666.
*DID YOU KNOW? Did you know that in addition to being read daily in all 50 of the United States, LBN is read daily in 26 foreign countries including: China, India, Brazil, Russia, France, Japan, Germany, England, Israel, Korea, Mexico, Cuba, Spain, Greece, Australia, South Africa, Canada, Sweden among others.
*LBN-INVESTIGATES: Google has managed to reduce its tax rates by billions of dollars by taking advantage of offshore tax havens such as Ireland and Bermuda. The top corporate income tax level in the U.S. is 35%. In Ireland, it’s only 12.5%, and in Bermuda it’s zero.
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*LBN-NOTICED: ***
Michael Moore seeing “Indecent” at the Cort Theatre in NYC ***
Ansel Elgort, Michael J. Fox, Susan Sarandon and
Michael Che at a Rangers game in NYC. ***
Bill Parcells at King Umberto in Elmont, NY. ***
Cyndi Lauper performing for a crowd including
Tony Goldwyn at a 2econd Stage Theater bash at TAO Downtown in NYC. ***
Aviva Drescher at Angelo David Salon in NYC. ***
Bobby Zarin buying a guitar for $20,000 at a St. Jude’s auction at
John Rich’s Nashville, Tenn., home. ***
Olivia Culpo at the SHAPE Women’s Half Marathon in NYC.
*LBN-MUSIC INSIDER: ***Country music legend
Loretta Lynn has been hospitalized after having a stroke, her publicist said
Friday.
Maria Malta, a publicist for Sony Music, confirmed that the 85-year-old singer and songwriter was admitted into a Nashville hospital
Thursday night after suffering the stroke at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee. Lynn’s website says she is responsive and expected to make a full recovery.
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*LBN-COMMENTARY by Brandy Zadrozny: Marie Claire is trying to make “mean moms” happen. According to a new 2,500-word feature in the women’s mag, a fresh set of troops have entered the great Mommy War: “Mean moms” are white, they’re privileged, and their tactics are so insidious, writer Anne Roderique-Jones reports, they’re driving droves of others mommies into therapy. “At mommy-meet-ups across the country, women have stopped playing nice,” Roderique-Jones writes, describing (mostly through a series of anecdotes) “a rise” in entitled, judgmental, aggressive, mom bullies. After decades of cover stories on the mommy wars, and a rise in mother-specific media to push the hottest and most enduring cat fight in modern times, this advancement in infighting seems hardly surprising. But are “mean moms” even real or are they just the most recent shot fired in a war in which a truce seems unlikely, the latest iteration of straw-moms we need to feel better about our own parenting? Maybe the moms are all right, after all.
*LBN-COMMENTARY by Mark Baer (Award-winning mediator, attorney): According to Brene’ Brown, Ph.D., empathy is a skill set, the core of which is perspective taking. Perspective taking is normally taught or modeled by parents. The more your perspective is in line with the dominant culture, the less you were probably taught about perspective taking. In the United States, the majority culture is white, Judeo-Christian, middle class, educated, and straight.
*LBN-COMMENTARY by Caroline McGuire: Airplanes are disgusting germ-harboring hotbeds – with deadly bacteria including MRSA and E.coli surviving for days on a craft. But if the thought of all those bugs is enough to make you avoid the flying entirely, there are ways to make sure your aircraft is as clean as possible: namely taking the earliest flight available. According to industry insiders, the only deep clean on planes happens overnight and some airlines even re-use their blankets without washing them. That means that at least two other people could have been snuggled up in your blanket before you. Nice.
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*LBN-OVERHEARD: ***Barbra Streisand made an emotional tribute to her close friend, late Hollywood mogul Sandy Gallin, at her Nassau Coliseum show on Thursday. Sources said that after two hours — and four standing ovations — “as a surprise at the end, she spoke about losing her dear friend Sandy, ‘who knew how to live life to the fullest.’” Gallin, a talent manager and home designer, died in April at 76. Streisand put a photo of Gallin up on a giant screen and crooned “Everything Must Change,” which she explained she first sang in honor of Bill Clinton’s mother, Virginia. ***Two years after a 21-year-old man drowned in Demi Moore‘sswimming pool, his family is going after her. In July 2015,Edenilson Steven Valle was found at the bottom of Moore’s pool after a party hosted at her Los Angeles home. Moore, 54, was out of town at the time, and when Valle’s body was discovered, she told press she was “in absolute shock” over the “unthinkable tragedy.” Valle’s parents, Jorge and Maria, initially filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against Tree House Trust, which owns the property, and Moore’s assistant and another person, who both threw the party. *** Charlie Sheen has credited an experimental anti-HIV drug for helping him ward off “borderline dementia,” throwing his star power behind the drug in an effort to help get it approved for wider use. The actor spoke at an awareness event in Hollywood Thursday night for PRO 140, an injectable therapy for HIV patients being marketed by Vancouver, Wash.-based biotechnology company CytoDyn.
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