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1 A DOMESTIC SITUATION You’d think the bustling, neon-lit, ‘sin city’ streets of Las Vegas would have nothing in common with a community church in a tiny, no-stoplight town like Sutherland Springs. But in America, we all have one terrible thing in common. And so it is that these two very different places find themselves playing an unwanted, starring role in America’s longest-running horror story. “At least 26 people are dead after a gunman opened fire during a Sunday service at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas. Those killed in the church ranged in age from 18-months to 77-years old.” Here’s the latest from Buzzfeed. + The Texas church gunman recently sent threatening texts to his mother-in-law, received a bad-conduct discharge from the Air Force, and had been sentenced to twelve-months confinement for spousal and child abuse. (You want to vet someone? Try domestic abusers who purchase assault weapons.) + Because of his past, the gunman could not qualify for a license to carry a concealed handgun. But he “would not have needed one to possess the Ruger AR-556 semi-automatic assault rifle reportedly used in the shooting.” + “Holcombe, an associate pastor for the church, was killed in the gunfire … Karla Holcombe, Bryan Holcombe’s wife of about four decades, was killed, too … Bryan and Karla Holcombe’s son Marc Daniel Holcombe, 36, also was killed … Marc Daniel had an infant daughter, Noah Holcombe, who, was a year old … She is dead, too … Another son of Bryan and Karla, John Holcombe, survived, but his wife, Crystal Holcombe, who was pregnant, did not. Crystal had five children. Three of them, Emily, Megan and Greg, died.” Death sweeps across 3 generations of a single family gathered at church. + “The resident … ran out of his house barefoot and exchanged gunfire with the shooter before the gunman sped away in a pearl-colored Fort Explorer. The armed resident then hailed a man across the street and got in his truck, telling him to chase down the gunman.” From CNN: Man exchanged fire with gunman, then joined another man to chase shooter. + Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on why we need more guns in church. President Trump said the shooting in Sutherland Springs “isn’t a guns situation.”

2 THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS “America’s mass shooting ritual is, by now, so familiar that it is beyond parody, beyond cynicism, indeed, beyond any reasonable explanation at all other than that we are too weak and too divided to make obvious changes to our laws and society to prevent more such tragedies. Sutherland Springs is Las Vegas is Sandy Hook is Orlando is Columbine. The names of the dead change but the political impotence remains very much the same.” The Week: The depressing ritual of mass murder in America. + As I type this, it’s been 1 day, 1 hour, 49 minutes and 55 seconds since America’s last mass shooting. The NYT: It’s Not Too Soon to Debate Gun Control.

3 SEARCH SEIZURE “For Google, the problem is the information marketplace around the previously unknown actors in major news events. In the immediate aftermath of the shooting, there just isn’t a lot of content to serve up for the search ‘Devin Patrick Kelley,’ so Google reaches to less authoritative users so that it can show something, anything.” Alexis Madrigal on Google’s mass-shooting misinformation problem.

4 SAUD OFF “Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman says he’s cracking down on corruption. But the sweeping arrests of cabinet ministers and senior princes Saturday night looked to many astonished Arab observers like a bold but risky consolidation of power.” WaPo’s David Ignatius explains what’s at stake after the Saudi crown prince made a very risky power play. + “Among Prince Alwaleed’s crown jewels: sizable stakes in Twitter, Lyft and Citigroup. He has gone into business with some of the corporate world’s biggest titans, including Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch and Michael R. Bloomberg. His investments span the globe, including the Four Seasons Hotel George V in Paris, the Savoy in London and the Plaza in New York.” The NYT on the arrest of Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, one of the world’s foremost investors.

5 GOING VIRAL “In Congo Republic, many suspected monkeypox cases trace back to the village of Manfouete, a six-hour boat trip from the nearest airport. The village has 1,600 people, no electricity and no running water. The scientists are traveling upriver in a big motorized boat that looks like an open-air school bus. They must bring everything they need for their work. So a second boat — a long, wooden dugout canoe — will follow later carrying most of their supplies: boxes of traps and test tubes, a portable centrifuge, jerrycans of gasoline, a 25-kilogram sack of rice and lots of bottled water.” WaPo reporters were allowed to tag along as US and Congolese scientists are tracked a virus, and came back with an amazing report on a science-driven war on a front most of us never consider: Chasing A Killer.

6 PARADISE COST “The files set out the myriad ways in which companies and individuals can avoid tax using artificial structures. These schemes are legal if run correctly. But many appear not to be. And politicians around the world are beginning to ask whether they should be banned. Are they fair? Are they moral?” The Guardian on the story that had a lot of deep-pocketed people and corporations paying attention this weekend: What are the Paradise Papers and what do they tell us? + From Wilbur Ross, to Yuri Milner, to Jared Kushner (surprise!), Digg has a good roundup for what you should know about the Paradise Papers.

7 NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND “I made this item you are going to buy, but I didn’t get paid for it.” From Refinery 29: Next time you shop at Zara, check the pockets for one of these.

8 TRIED TO MAKE ME GO TO REHAB “According to an investigation by The Verge, several popular publications covering addiction and treatment double as marketing operations for treatment centers. Rehab Reviews and The Fix are controlled by Cliffside Malibu founder Richard Taite, while Addiction Unscripted — a group promoted by Mark Zuckerberg this summer for its use of Facebook — is owned and staffed by the CEO and marketers of Windward Way, a treatment center in Costa Mesa, California.” Review Sites Have Deep Ties To The Rehabs They Promote. (It turns out you can’t trust stuff you read on the internet…)

9 OM, OM, OMG “I heard a rumor that a woman we’d grown up with had seen Jeff shopping at the mall, fully decked out in an orange monastic robe. A while later, my mom called me with the news that Jeff had moved to Taiwan temporarily and was living at a monastery, devoting himself to meditation and Buddhist study. I was completely dumbfounded. What in the world led to this?” Eric Steuer goes in search the guy who used to bully him in school: The Bully and the Buddhist.

10 BOTTOM OF THE NEWS “‘In my book, there’s no reason why children in elementary schools can’t be launching their own businesses,’ Rebekah Neumann said in an interview. She thinks kids should develop their passions and act on them early, instead of waiting to grow up to be ‘disruptive,’ as the entrepreneurial set puts it.” WeWork, “having expanded into health, spirituality and ‘co-living,’ is launching a grade school for ‘conscious entrepreneurship.'” (What we need is a grade school for parody. It’s almost impossible to achieve these days…) + If you missed in on Friday, here’s my take on the glorious eleven minutes when Twitter (and the everyone else) was free. Rogue Won. The news moves at Internet speed and stories often depart our consciousness as fast as they flash over our screens, but few of us will forget where we were when, for eleven brief-but-glorious minutes, Donald Trump — the all caps king, the exclamation point potus — was deleted from Twitter; giving a us an ephemeral respite from the past SAD! ten months, a welcome reprieve during which we could ENJOY! the fantasy that this near year of social media trolling from the Oval Office had merely been an illusion; a Shakespearean-level tragicomedy concocted in the less forgiving recesses of our slumbering minds — perchance just a bad dream, one that, had he lived during this era, Sigmund Freud might have interpreted as: Fake News. Alas, it was no such thing, a reality slapped across our face by the tiny tapping thumbs of he whose account had re-emerged: “My Twitter account was taken down for 11 minutes by a rogue employee.” (That this was a true statement was surely intended to make us think the account was in someone else’s normal-sized hands. But no such luck. This one went to minute 11, but no further.) From AP: Trump’s brief Twitter outage prompts cheers, concerns.(Dave Pell) + Daughter, age IX photographs dog with iPhone X.     MHI NextDraft

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“TRUMP, IN PUERTO RICO, PRAISES RESPONSE TO HURRICANE”

– Ali Vitali

Ali Vitali of NBC News reports on President Trump’s visit to Puerto Rico where he took part in handing supplies out to Puerto Ricans in need and walked door to door in one residential neighborhood, greeting families who were outside their homes. The President also praised first responders and local officials, telling them they “can be very proud” of relief and life-saving efforts, before applauding FEMA Administrator Brock Long—giving him an “A+” for his relief efforts—and Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rossello for speaking positively about the federal government’s efforts on the island and not “playing politics.” In the wake of a variety of tweets by President Trump, Vitali writes the President told a family in San Juan, “Your governor and your mayor have done, really, a fantastic job,” and that Puerto Rico’s recovery “has been the toughest one.”

Regarding tax reform, North Carolina Republican Party Chairman Robin Hayes writes in The Washington Times that North Carolina serves as a “bellwether model” for how tax reform can help lead to economic growth, saying “reforms are boosting our state’s climate for job creation, driving down unemployment, and returning more money to the families and small businesses that earned it.”

On regulation cuts, the Investor’s Business Daily editorial board writes that “President Trump is taking the job of cutting bad regulations seriously,” saying “the president seems to be pushing a minor revolution of sorts, as he repeals all sorts of rules that once impeded the economy.”

In economic news, The Wall Street Journal reports that the Institute for Supply Management’s “closely watched” index of manufacturing activity “reached a 13-year high in September,” another sign of an improving economy.

And William Murchison of RealClearPolitics writes President Trump’s declaration of the Las Vegas massacre as “an act of pure evil” is a “bull’s-eye,” before discussing the battle between good and evil in “our rancorous age.”

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WHITE HOUSE REPORT

To : <redaksi@mediahukumindonesia.com>Date : Tue, 03 Oct 2017 23:17:14 +0700   Subject : President Trump’s Remarks on Las Vegas

Remarks on Las Vegas
President Trump addressed the Nation on Monday morning in the wake of a tragic mass shooting on Sunday night at a music festival in Las Vegas, Nevada. The shooting claimed the lives of at least 59 victims, leaving hundreds more wounded. The President thanked the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department and first responders for their swift and diligent efforts, and offered words of solidarity to the families impacted by the attack. “In moments of tragedy and horror, America comes together as one,” President Trump said. “We call upon the bonds that unite us — our faith, our family, and our shared values. We call upon the bonds of citizenship, the ties of community, and the comfort of our common humanity.”

See the President’s full remarks here.

Presidential Proclamation Honoring the Victims of the Tragedy in Las Vegas
Yesterday, President Trump signed a Presidential Proclamation to honor the victims of the horrible tragedy in Las Vegas, Nevada. This Proclamation orders the flag of the United States to be flown at half-staff from October 1, 2017 through October 6, 2017. “Our Nation is heartbroken. We mourn with all whose loved ones were murdered and injured in last night’s horrible tragedy in Las Vegas, Nevada. As we grieve, we pray that God may provide comfort and relief to all those suffering.”

Read the full Proclamation here.

Hurricane Relief UpdateToday, President Trump and the First Lady are in Puerto Rico to visit with individuals impacted by Hurricane Maria and receive a briefing on relief efforts.

FEMA continues to make progress through the unified efforts of the federal government, working in support of Puerto Rico’s response and recovery efforts. The full focus of the federal government is on making roads accessible and providing emergency power for the purposes of life-sustaining activities for health and medical needs, and the delivery of food and water. FEMA and its federal partners will be here for years to come, helping Puerto Rico not only in its response, but also its recovery.

Additionally, the President amended the Florida Disaster Declaration yesterday to make additional federal funding available for debris removal in the wake of Hurricane Irma.

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Photo of the Day

President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump lead a moment of silence honoring the victims of the Las Vegas shooting | October 2, 2017 (Official White House Photo by Andrea Hanks)

POTUS and VP TODAY

Today, President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump are in Puerto Rico to survey hurricane damage and relief efforts and to meet with individuals impacted by Hurricane Maria.

They will also meet with Governor Kenneth Mapp of the U.S. Virgin Islands, Governor Ricardo Rossello, and senior military personnel.Vice President Pence will travel to Phoenix, Arizona, to meet with local businesses, community leaders, and Arizona families to discuss the need for tax reform.

COMING UP

Tomorrow, the President and the First Lady will travel to Las Vegas to meet with first responders and families of the victims of the tragic shooting on Sunday night.

Pembukaan Resmi SAIK 2017: “Mewujudkan Masyarakat Informasi diEra Digital”

Menteri PANRB saat menerima cenderamata dari pengisi acara saat pembukaan SAIK Tahun 2017 di Hotel Novotel, Palembang, Sumatra Selatan, Rabu (22/11).

PALEMBANG ,22 Nov 2017-Kementerian Komunikasi dan Informatika (Kominfo) menyelenggarakan Sinergi Aksi Informasi dan Komunikasi Publik (SAIK) Tahun 2017 selama tiga hari 21-23 November 2017 di Palembang, Sumatra Selatan. Acara pembukaan secara resmi SAIK 2017 dilaksanakan di Hotel Novotel, Palembang, Rabu .

Menteri Pendayagunaan Aparatur Negara dan Reformasi Birokrasi (PANRB), Asman Abnur menyampaikan bahwa Indonesia merupakan negara dengan pertumbuhan pengguna internet terbesar di dunia yang pada tahun 2017 sebesar 132,7 juta atau sekitar 51% dari jumlah penduduk yakni 262 juta jiwa.

Dalam pengelolaan informasi publik, menurut Asman, humas pemerintah harus kreatif agar masyarakat menyukai karena era sekarang ini sudah masuk dunia digital.”Humas Pemerintah tidak bisa lagi terpaku dalam budaya manual, tetapi harus bertransformasi ke budaya digital sehingga butuh inovasi dan kreativitas. ASN harus mengedepankan profesionalisme dan pengetahuan,” tambah Asman.Pendekatan two way traffic komunikasi humas pemerintah, lanjut Asman, sehingga memudahkan untuk penyebaran informasi yang menggunakan berbagai perangkat teknologi saat ini.

“Sebagaimana arahan Presiden bahwa humas pemerintah harus mampu tampil di depan dalam melakukan agenda setting di tengah derasnya arus informasi saat ini,” ujar Asman.

Terdapat peningkatan signifikan, menurut MenPANRB, dalam penguatan reformasi birokrasi dari ASN untuk pusat, provinsi, dan daerah. Ia menambahkan bahwa ke depan yang diukur adalah outcome atau apa yang dihasilkan oleh ASN.

“Perbaikan ASN mulai dilakukan dengan proses rekrutmen PNS di pusat dan 1 provinsi. Nilai yang diperoleh saat tes CPNS langsung dibuka saat hari tersebut,” tambah Asman. Dengan penyelenggara negara yang baik, lanjut Asman, akan menjadi perbaikan dalam proses pengembangan kapasitas ASN yang baik.

“Mari kita ubah cara kerja ASN. Mudah-mudahan dengan demikian negara Indonesia akan menjadi lebih baik ke depan,” pungkas MenPANRB seraya membuka secara resmi agenda SAIK Tahun 2017 dengan tema Mewujudkan Masyarakat Informasi di Era Digital.

Turut hadir dalam acara pembukaan kali ini Menteri PANRB Asman Abnur, Gubernur Sumsel Alex Noerdin, Dirjen IKP Rosarita Niken Widiastuti, Deputi Hublem Kemensetneg Dadan Wildan, Wali Kota Palembang Harnojoyo, Wali Kota Padang Mahyeldi Ansharullah, Bupati Kerom Celcius Watae, Bupati Musi Banyuasin Dodi Reza Alex, Asdep Humas dan Protokol Setkab Alfurkon Setiawan, Asdep Humas Kemensetneg Masrokhan, Direktur Kemitraan Komunikasi Dedet Surya Nandika, dan para pejabat/perwakilan humas kementerian/lembaga.

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