Article Title: Trump budget expected to seek historic contraction of federal workforce
Snippet of Article: "...The cuts Trump plans to propose this week are also expected to lead to layoffs among federal workers, changes that would be felt sharply..."
Article Title: Wikileaks Vault 7: CIA Hacking Tools Revealed
Snippet of Article: "...WikiLeaks begins its new series of leaks on the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Code-named "Vault 7" by WikiLeaks, it is the largest ever publication of confidential documents on the agency.
The first full part of the series, "Year Zero", comprises 8,761 documents and files from an isolated, high-security network situated inside the CIA's Center for Cyber Intelligence in Langley, Virgina..."
Article Title: The Government’s Secret Wiki for Intelligence
Snippet of Article: "...Intellipedia, has been around for more than a decade. It’s made up of three different wikis, at different classification levels: one wiki for sensitive but unclassified information, another for secret information, and a third for top secret information. Each wiki can only be accessed by employees in the U.S. intelligence community’s 17 agencies who have the appropriate clearance level..."
MORE READING: How you can (legally) read Intellipedia 'How to access the “Wikipedia for US intelligence agencies”'
Article Title: Trump blames FBI for failing to stop media leaks
Snippet of Article: "...President Donald Trump is blaming the FBI for failing to stop leaks to the media, saying the information being reported is classified and could have a "devastating effect" on the country...."
Article Title: Tax Reform That Will Make America Great Again
Snippet of Article: "...For those Americans who will still pay the income tax, the
tax rates
will go from the
current
seven brackets to four
simpler, fairer brackets
that eliminate the marriage penalty
and
the
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while providing the lowest tax rate since
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Article Title: Average January retirement surge falls short of alarmist predictions
Snippet of Article: "...The latest data released by the Office of Personnel Management showed that in the first month of 2017, 15,317 federal employees filed to retire...January is historically the month when the most feds file for retirement. But that number, while large, is about 100 fewer than in 2016, and falls short of 2015’s numbers by more than 3,300..."
Article Title: Federal workers turn to secret messaging to oppose Trump policies, nominees
Snippet of Article: "...Some federal employees are gearing up for a cyber-battle against President Trump, and they are creating a hidden messaging system to elude detection.
According to POLITICO, employees of agencies that seem on the chopping block of the new administration are setting up new email addresses and turning to encrypted messaging apps ..."
Article Title: New High in the Stock Market: What Should TSP Investors Do?
Snippet of Article: "...The Dow Jones Industrial Average has crossed the 20,000 threshold. What does this mean and what, if anything, should Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) participants do with their investments now?..."
Article Title: H.R.756 - Postal Service Reform Act of 2017
Snippet of Article: "...(c) Establishment of the Postal Service Health Benefits Program.—
“(1) IN GENERAL.—The Office shall establish the Postal Service Health Benefits Program under which the Office contracts with carriers to offer health benefits plans as described under this section. Except as otherwise provided under this section, any such contract shall be consistent with the requirements of this chapter for contracts under section 8902 with carriers to offer health benefits plans other than under this section. The Program shall...subject to the requirements of this section; and
“(B) may not enroll in any other health benefits plan offered"
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Article Title: Trump fires acting attorney general for refusing to defend Trump’s executive order on refugees
Snippet of Article: "...It’s sad that our politics have become so politicized, that you have people refusing to enforce our laws,” Miller said Monday night on MSNBC.
Miller also defended the executive order’s legality, insisting that the Immigration and Nationality Act gives the President “the ability to exclude any class of would-be visitors or immigrants to our country based on our national security interests..."
Article Title: Trump signs executive order for 'extreme vetting' of refugees
Snippet of Article: "...The order also creates an “extreme vetting” process for any and all immigrants and visitors to the U.S.
House Chairman Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, told Fox News, 'It’s a safer day for America..."
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Article Title: Proposed Retirement Changes for Federal Employees
Snippet of Article: "...Currently, an employee’s annuity is calculated by using the highest three years of earnings. This is commonly referred to as the “high three.” The report recommends changing this calculation to using the highest five years of earnings instead of the high three...pay 4.4 percent of their salaries into the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS)...Chained CPI and changing the high three to high five are significant for federal retirees..."
Article Title: Madonna: 'I Have Thought an Awful Lot About Blowing Up the White House'
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Article Title: CIA unveils new rules for collecting information on Americans
Snippet of Article: "...The guidelines were published two days before President elect-Donald Trump is sworn into office and may be changed by the new administration. Trump has said he favors stronger government surveillance powers..."
Article Title: Stolen Yahoo Data Includes Government Employee Information
Snippet of Article: "...More than 150,000 U.S. government and military employees are among the victims of Yahoo! Inc.’s newly disclosed data breach, and their names, passwords, telephone numbers, security questions, birth dates, and backup e-mail addresses are now in the hands of cybercriminals. It’s a leak that could allow foreign intelligence services to identify employees and hack their personal and work accounts, posing a threat to national security. These employees had given their official government accounts to Yahoo in case they were ever locked out of their e-mail..."
Article Title: Great Stocking Stuffer Christmas Idea: A 23andme DNA Ancestry Test Kit
Article Title: 1851 Dakota Land Cession Treaties
Snippet of Article: "...in exchange for $3,750,000 (estimated at 12 cents per acre), to be paid over decades. Little of the payment was received. The treaty stipulated that they would retain a strip of land 20 miles wide, spanning the Minnesota River; this article was unilaterally removed by the U.S. Senate, but later reinstated by legislation...."
Article Title: 5 U.S.C. 3110 - Employment of relatives; restrictions
Snippet of Article: "...(3) “relative” means, with respect to a public official, an individual who is related to the public official as father, mother, son, daughter, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, first cousin, nephew, niece, husband, wife, father-in-law, mother-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, stepfather, stepmother, stepson, stepdaughter, stepbrother, stepsister, half brother, or half sister.
(b) A public official may not appoint, employ, promote, advance, or advocate for appointment, employment, promotion, or advancement, in or to a civilian position in the agency in which he is serving or over which he exercises jurisdiction or control any individual who is a relative of the public official. An individual may not be appointed, employed, promoted, or advanced in or to a civilian position in an agency if such appointment, employment, promotion, or advancement has been advocated by a public official, serving in or exercising jurisdiction or control over the agency, who is a relative of the individual..."
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Article Title: Donald Trump on refusing presidential salary: 'I'm not taking it'
Snippet of Article: "...During a campaign appearance in Rochester, New Hampshire, last October, the billionaire told a crowd he would not be accepting the $400,000 annual salary if he became president..."
Article Title: Trump Win Could Spell Quick Tax-Rate Cuts, Obamacare Repeal
Snippet of Article: "...foundation for serious tax reform.”
“He’s a total deal-maker,” centrist Pennsylvania lawmaker Charlie Dent said of Trump. “There is no question he’s extremely pragmatic."
Dan Holler of the conservative group Heritage Action said the new administration and congressional leaders can forge unity by repealing Obamacare quickly, loosening regulations and cutting taxes..."
Article Title: Federal employees behind in pay by 34 percent on average, salary council says
Snippet of Article: "...Federal workers earn 34.07 percent on average less than private-sector employees doing comparable work, according to the government’s official..."
Article Title: FBI has found no criminal wrongdoing in new Clinton emails, says James Comey
Snippet of Article: "...'You can’t review 650,000 emails in eight days,' Donald Trump told a campaign rally in Sterling Heights, Michigan on Sunday evening.
On 28 October, only 11 days before the presidential election, Comey sent congressional leaders a letter informing them that agents had discovered emails “that appear pertinent” to a prior investigation, into Clinton’s use of a private server while she was secretary of state. It was later reported that as many as 650,000 such emails were in question..."
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Article Title: White House Readies to Fight Election Day Cyber Mayhem
Snippet of Article: "... Officials are alert for any attempts to create Election Day chaos, and say steps are being taken to prepare for worst-case scenarios, including a cyber-attack that shuts down part of the power grid or the internet.
But what is more likely, multiple U.S. officials say, is a lower-level effort by hackers ..."
Article Title: Should i move my investments prior to the election?
Question: Should i move my investments prior to the election? The big question in the upcoming election is should i shift my investments? The answer depends on many factors but statistically speaking, it depends on whether a Republican or Democrat is elected. According to an ABC article citing the well respected Bespoke Investment Group, currently 'the Dow is down 27.4% this year. How have stocks fared from Election Day to year's end? When a Democrat wins, stocks have lost 1%, while rising 4% if a Republican wins, Bespoke Investment Group says.' So, according to the article, it obviously does make a difference on what party is elected. Obviously the choice is yours. You can make a decision based on facts or you can play it like the lottery and let emotions determine your decision.
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