Obama's New Tech Advisor Proved How Easy It Is To Hack Voting Machines

Obama's New Tech Advisor Proved How Easy It Is To Hack Voting Machines
The White House just named Ed Felten as its newest advisor in the Office of Science and Technology Policy. 
Felten is a professor at Princeton, but you might remember him from a 2006 video where he shows how to hack a voting machine and potentially steal an election. (Conspiracy theorists, start your engines!)

“Our study shows that a criminal who can inject malicious software into this voting machine can control how the votes are tallied,” the narrator of the video says. 
“His malicious software can steal votes, and it can cover its tracks so that the theft cannot be detected.”

Felten and his two grad student researchers at Princeton wrote software to hack the Diebold machines and demonstrated it in the video below.

Aside from being on faculty at Princeton, Felten has held a number of positions in government.
He was named the first Chief Technologist at the Federal Trade Commission, and also worked on antitrust issues at the Department of Justice.
He was also a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

So what does this mean for White House policy?
We’d speculate that perhaps the US might start to take the security of its e-voting machines more seriously..."

Moody's cuts Chicago's credit rating to junk

Moody's cuts Chicago's credit rating to junk - Government News - Crain's Chicago Business: "Chicago today became the first victim of the Illinois Supreme Court's ruling on pensions, as Moody's Investors Service reduced the city's credit rating to junk bond status.
In a statement that specifically cited the court's May 8 decision overturning cuts in state pensions, the credit rating agency said the city's options now “have narrowed considerably.”
The downgrade is a blow to Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who during the mayoral election stressed his expertise to deal with the city's financial challenges. Emanuel labeled Moody's decision “irresponsible,” but did not deny its impact.
The downgrade is also a major blow to taxpayers because the city's cost of borrowing will rise, perhaps a lot, even if other bond ratings agencies do not follow Moody's lead.
If Fitch Ratings and Standard & Poor's Financial Services follow suit, the city's financial position could spiral downward—potentially forcing the city to come up with as much as $500 million quickly..."

VIDEO: Black Panther Leader Called for Bombing Nurseries to Murder White Babies… Where’s Al Sharpton?

VIDEO: Black Panther Leader Called for Bombing Nurseries to Murder White Babies… Where’s Al Sharpton?:

"Led by Chief of Staff Michelle Williams and King Samir Shabazz, two edgy individuals with a disturbing agenda, the group has called for violence against whites for years.

Williams has a history of infamous, hateful, racial remarks, inciting racial conflict surrounding the Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman ordeal, to Ferguson, New York and Baltimore.

Shabazz claims that whites fed black babies to alligators, therefore blacks should rise up an bomb white nurseries."

Vienna installs crossing lights with same-sex couples to promote tolerance and road safety

Vienna installs crossing lights with same-sex couples to promote tolerance and road safety | Circa News:
"The Austrian capital, Vienna, has installed pedestrian crossing lights featuring gay and lesbian couples ahead of the Eurovision Song Contest.
The images displayed on traffic lights at dozens of pedestrian crossings were changed in early May to show couples, including gay and lesbian ones, instead of the normal solitary figure.
They will stay up until June.
The city says the campaign is mainly designed to raise awareness about traffic safety through the eye-catching images, though it was also timed with the Eurovision Song Contest, which starts May 18 in Vienna.
Eurovision is popular with LGBTQ audiences and was won last year by Austrian transgender Conchita Wurst ..."

Maybe not so "awesome"----Baltimore is awesome

History for May 14

History for May 14 - On-This-Day.com
Bobby Darin 1936 - Singer, actor, George Lucas 1944 - Film producer, screenwriter, director ("Star Wars" movie series), Tim Roth 1961 - Actor ("Resovoir Dogs," "Pulp Fiction") 


Fabrice Morvan 1966 - Singer (Milli Vanilli), Cate Blanchett (Catherine Élise "Cate" Blanchett) 1969 - Actress, theatre director, Mark Zuckerberg 1984 - Founder of Facebook 


1796 - The first smallpox vaccination was given by Edward Jenner. 


1853 - Gail Borden applied for a patent for condensed milk. 


1862 - The chronograph was patented by Adolphe Nicole. 


1878 - The name Vaseline was registered by Robert A. Chesebrough. 


1904 - In St. Louis, the Olympic games were held. It was the first time for the games to be played in the U.S. 


1942 - The Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) was established by an act of the U.S. Congress. 


1948 - Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion proclaimed the independent State of Israel as British rule in Palestine came to an end. 


1980 - U.S. President Carter inaugurated the Department of Health and Human Services. 

LIBERTY REVIEW

LIBERTY REVIEW:

http://libertyreview76.blogspot.com/2015/05/agenda-inc.html

Agenda Inc.

By Tammy Derouin

We need to ask ourselves, how much longer are we going to allow outsiders to fundamentally transform our way of life?  We have allowed our government to take control of issues it has no business controlling, while allowing it to completely disregard its purpose and sworn duty.  

Americans have always been the target of our enemies, but now, attacks are taking place on our own soil. Our once honorable White House ignores the threats. The government has tried to downplay such attacks.  They excuse the behavior of those who wish to destroy everything American and condemn Americans for not embracing the very people who wish to destroy us.  In what universe does this make sense? 

By giving in to political correctness, we have allowed our enemies to influence our thinking and behavior. Agenda Inc. goes into overtime.  Names are manufactured to categorize individuals as they see fit.  Lies are manufactured to make the desired outcome make sense. Truth no longer matters.  If the ends justify the means, cheating and lying are acceptable. 

Look how far this country has declined over the past several years.

Shock Video: 12 Year Welfare Queen Explains “I don’t need it (a job), I get a check from the government”

Shock Video: 12 Year Welfare Queen Explains “I don’t need it (a job), I get a check from the government”:

"When asked how she feels about not having a job, she says, “I’m comfortable with it and I feel like I don’t need to look for one [a job] because I get a check from the government every month.”

Kiara, never try to look for a job Because she don’t believe in working. the Government is their to help her So why Work."

Mom: The Millennial in your basement is a member of the Socialist Army

Mom: The Millennial in your basement is a member of the Socialist Army

There’s no longer any doubt about it, that 30-something son surfing the ‘net in his underwear in Mama’s basement, only coming out to join the latest protest is a face-mask-wearing, sworn member of the Democrats’ Brave New World.

That his heroic grandfather sacrificed his life in World War II leaving him the lifestyle of careless ease he leads down in the basement means nothing to Mama’s me-first millennials.

The stats are in: “One third of millennials view socialism favorably”, according to YouGov.

...“Younger Americans have a much better view of socialism, and worse view of capitalism, than their elders.” (YouGov, May 11, 2015)

...Canada Free Press columnist Kevin Stoos turns out to be chillingly prescient for what he wrote back in 2009:
“If you feel the ground shaking under your feet; if the America you once knew seems to be changing daily; if you feel that you have less and less control over your life and the country is being governed from the top down, then you should take heed.
“Someone is “remoulding the world nearer his heart’s desire,” and he has the biggest hammer in the world.
If you want to understand Obama’s agenda, you need to peer into the Fabian Window.
The Fabian Window is a beautiful, if sinister, thing...
Read it all and prepare for the worst.

Defiant Dems Block Obama’s Trade Authority | TheBlaze.com

Defiant Dems Block Obama’s Trade Authority | TheBlaze.com:

"Senate Democrats on Tuesday stood up to President Barack Obama and blocked legislation that would give him the power to negotiate trade agreements that cannot be amended by Congress, even as Senate Republicans voted for the measure.

The Senate held a procedural vote on a bill to give Obama that authority, one that needed 60 votes to keep the bill alive. But the Senate couldn’t reach that threshold, and instead held a mostly party-line 52-45 vote."

The Obamacare pain never ends----Hawaii’s $205 Million Obamacare Exchange Implodes

Hawaii’s $205 Million Obamacare Exchange Implodes | Americans for Tax Reform:
"Despite over $205 million in federal taxpayer funding, Hawaii’s Obamacare exchange website will soon shut down.
Since its implementation, the exchange has somehow failed to become financially viable because of lower than expected Obamacare enrollment figures.
With the state legislature rejecting a $28 million bailout, the website will now be unable to operate past this year.
...This is not the first time that a state exchange has failed, and taken millions of dollars in federal funds down with it.
Earlier this year, Oregon’s state exchange was officially abolished at an estimated cost of $41 million. Cover Oregon, as it used to be known received $305 million in funds from HHS but failed to produce a workable website months after the 2013 November deadline. The debacle has promoted numerous federal agencies and organizations to investigate allegations of inappropriate political interference from then Governor Kitzhaber’s 2014 reelection campaign."

Obama Orders Illegal Aliens To Be Admitted Into Military

Obama Orders Illegal Aliens To Be Admitted Into Military
Per President Barack Obama’s directive last fall, the U.S. Army is enlisting illegal aliens who are so called “Dreamers” into its ranks.
The Hill reports that since January, the Army has enlisted 81 illegal immigrants who received deportation deferrals under the Obama administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
Congress is debating whether illegal immigrants should lawfully be allowed into the military. Rep. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., inserted a provision in the 2016 defense budget to encourage the enlistment of qualified illegal immigrants.

Here's How Much Michigan 'Prevailing Wage' Law Costs Your School District

Here's How Much Michigan 'Prevailing Wage' Law Costs Your School District [Michigan Capitol Confidential]:
Michigan’s “prevailing wage” law costs residents more than $224 million each year, according to the Anderson Economic Group. 
Now there’s a website that brings the impact of that even closer to home.
Created by the Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) of Michigan, the new site lets people learn the cost of prevailing wage mandates for individual school Districts. www.TimeForRepeal.com/waste-calculator/.
ABC of Michigan, which represents commercial, governmental and industrial construction industries, has consistently advocated for eliminating the state’s prevailing wage law, which essentially requires construction firms doing work for the government to pay union scale wages and follow union work rules.
...In Michigan, House Bill 4001, sponsored by Rep. Amanda Price, R-Holland, would repeal the law and on the Senate side Senate Bill 3, sponsored by Sen. David Robertson, R-Grand Blanc, would do the same. 
There are also numerous bills sponsored by other lawmakers that address various aspects of the issue. Senate Majority Leader Arlan Meekhof, R-West Olive, has announced that Senate hearings on repealing the prevailing wage will begin soon.
...The new website includes a “waste calculator” www.TimeForRepeal.com/waste-calculator/,that compares construction costs each district pays to what their costs would be if they were allowed to follow private sector standards

Texas Police Change Major Detail in Story of How Muhammad Cartoon Contest Gunmen Were Killed | TheBlaze.com

Texas Police Change Major Detail in Story of How Muhammad Cartoon Contest Gunmen Were Killed | TheBlaze.com:

"The key details surrounding the deaths of the two gunmen who were killed during their assault against a Muhammad cartoon contest in Garland, Texas, earlier this month are changing, with police now saying that it was a SWAT team — and not a sole officer — who killed the suspects"

His first step?-----Obama Rips Fox: 'We're Going to Have to Change How the Media Reports'

Obama Rips Fox: 'We're Going to Have to Change How the Media Reports' - Breitbart
For going on seven years we have learned three things about President Obama: 
1) He loves the poor so much he continues to create more of them. 
2) He loves the poor so much he does everything in his power to keep them poor. 
3) He doesn’t see the opposition as loyal, but as bad players — his enemy. 
This is especially true of Fox News, which Obama ripped as anti-poor bigots during a Wednesday afternoon summit on poverty.

We’re used to this Obama, the forever-partisan who has never seen himself as president of all the people but only of those who worship him.

What was most revealing about the president’s comments was his expressed desire to “change how the media reports.”
Speaking of Fox News, the poor, and the way GOP leaders think, Obama said, [W]e’re going to have to change how our body politic thinks, which means we’re going to have to change how the media reports on these issues.”

Here is the full transcript:

I think that the effort to suggest that the poor are sponges, leeches, don’t want to work, are lazy, are undeserving, got traction. And look, it’s still being propagated. I have to say that if you watch Fox News on a regular basis, it is a constant venue. They will find folks who make me mad. I don’t know where they find them. They’re all like, “I don’t want to work. I just want a free Obama Phone, or whatever.” And that becomes an entire narrative that gets worked up. And very rarely do you hear an interview of a waitress, which is much more typical — who is raising a couple of kids and doing everything right but still can’t pay the bills.

And so, if we’re going to change how Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) and Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY)  think, we’re going to have to change how our body politic thinks, which means we’re going to have to change how the media reports on these issues, and how people’s impressions of what it’s like to struggle in this economy looks like. And how budgets connect to that. And that’s a hard process because that requires a much broader conversation than typically we have on the nightly news.

After seven failed years, to watch Obama sit there and discuss the poor as though he is part of the solution and not the problem, is laughable.
And let’s not forget that Obama knows nothing about poverty. 
He has lived a privileged life.
...Obama likes poor people fine — he likes them dependent on the government.
He also likes the news media to do what it’s told...

13 years (or more!) in the socialist madrassas called schools will brainwash our children-----One third of millennials view socialism favorably

YouGov | One third of millennials view socialism favorably:
"Younger Americans have a much better view of socialism, and worse view of capitalism, than their elders"

Outlandish Claim About Illegal Immigrants Earns Hillary Clinton ‘Four Pinocchios’ From Fact-Checker

Outlandish Claim About Illegal Immigrants Earns Hillary Clinton ‘Four Pinocchios’ From Fact-Checker | TheBlaze.com:

"While speaking at a “roundtable” in Las Vegas last week, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton claimed that some illegal immigrants in New York pay more in taxes than some corporations. 
On Monday, a Washington Post fact-checker gave Clinton’s false assertion “4 Pinocchios.”

Rich democrats caught engagong in massive eco-hypocrisy amid California drought after photos exposed.

Barbra Streisand to cut water usage amid California drought after photos | Daily Mail Online:
Red-faced Barbra Streisand to cut water usage after pictures emerge of her lush gardens amid California drought 

• Experts estimate there will be less than a year's worth of drinking water in California's reservoirs at the end of 2015
• Yet the rich and famous of Los Angeles continue to water their lawns with apparently no concern for conservation 
• Aerial images have shown the ever-green lawns of Kim Kardashian, Barbra Streisand and Petra Stunt among others

Barbra Streisand appears to have been shamed into cutting her water usage after shocking aerial photographs showed her Malibu yard looking lush and green despite California experiencing its worst drought in history.

Residents across California have been demolishing pools, cutting back on showers and letting their lawns turn brown after experts estimated that there will be less than a year's worth of drinking water left in the state's reservoirs by the end of 2015.

But recent aerial photographs have shown that many stars are keeping their yards well watered with their green lawns contrasting sharply with the dusty brown landscape surrounding them.
Despite being an advocate for energy conservation, Barbra Streisand's beach-side home in Malibu appears green as ever

However, Ms Streisand is apparently now going to turn off the sprinklers, with a source telling the New York Post that she’s going to let some of her plants turn brown.

A spokesman for Streisand had earlier issued a statement to the Post claiming she had cut her water usage by over 50 per cent in the past few months, though photographs showed her pool full and her lawn well manicured.

(The aerial photographs of the stars’ yards were taken by John Chapple from a helicopter.)

His images showed the mega-mansions owned by Kanye West and Kim Kardashian, Jennifer Lopez and heiress Petra Stunt to be among the most verdant in Los Angeles.

'The Kardashian flowers and hedges are right in our face,' a neighbor of West and Kardashian in Hidden Hills told the New York Post. 'It’s disgusting. You walk by and you can smell the freshness.'

The reality star previously claimed that she was washing her hair only every five days in response to the drought, a move she called 'a little excessive, maybe'.

More eco-hypocrisy at link!

Money we don't have-----Obama’s Energy Regulations To Cost Americans $460.5 Billion

Obama’s Energy Regulations To Cost Americans $460.5 Billion | The Daily Caller
Energy and environmental regulations finalized by the Obama administration in the past five years come with a hefty price tag of $460.5 billion, according to data compiled by a center-right think tank.

The American Action Forum’s Regulation Rodeo database shows that the Obama administration finalized 275 energy and environment regulations between 2009 and 2014, with the price tag of each regulation averaging $1.75 billion.

And that doesn’t even consider the paperwork companies will have to complete. 
AAF data shows that Obama’s energy regulations have burdened Americans with 24.3 million paperwork hours.
That means every year, Americans have to complete an additional 3.95 million hours of paperwork because of energy regulations.

Now, $460 billion is a huge price tag, but most of the administration’s regulatory costs come from some 29 regulations that each cost $1 billion or more.
The two most expensive finalized rules were imposed by the EPA to fight global warming...”