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*? 2 ALL: GINGRICH SUED FOR ASSAULT AND BATTERY - WHAT ARE YOUR COMMENTS?*
Hi Team!
*? 2 ALL:
GINGRICH SUED FOR ASSAULT AND BATTERY -
(above):Edward Dillard holds a Ron Paul sign and Sue Janssen holds a
Newt Gingrich
sign before Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich visits a
voting precinct at the
First Baptist Church of Windermere, Florida, on January 31, 2012, near Orlando.
- Orlando Sentinel (Stan Honda, AFP/Getty Images / January 31, 2012)
The Associated Press reports:
"A central Florida man is suing Newt Gingrich, claiming a security
officer for the Republican presidential candidate stomped on his foot
'like he was stomping out a cigarette.'
"Edward Dillard claims his foot was fractured by the security team
after voting Tuesday in the Orlando suburb of Windermere.
"Dillard was wearing a Ron Paul T-shirt and holding a sign when
Gingrich arrived. The lawsuit claims a 'swarm' of security guards from
Patriot Group International surrounded Dillard and one stomped on his
foot while he was wearing open sandals, causing a fracture.
"Ron Paul's campaign called for Gingrich to apologize. Messages left
Saturday with Gingrich's campaign and Patriot Group were not
immediately returned.
"The lawsuit seeks damages in excess of $75,000."
Gingrich sued for assault and battery - what are your comments?
Greg Dempsey
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SECULARHUMANIST/
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One can only suffer so much degradation at the hands of evil doers, that, backed into the proverbial corner, they lash back. I am now at that point. The evil my family has been dealing with through the corrupt court system, the watching a beloved, yet helpless family member literally be snuffed from existence by the very guardians of her person for money, fighting on as every attempt to do the right thing the right way is thrown back at you with so much corruption and dishonesty, that you finally feel that perhaps the "right way" can no longer be the best way..........that is the crossroad at which I now stand.
Evil in America has been insidiously attacking every moral fiber of our society for a VERY long time. The perpetrators finally reached their pinnacle with the 2008 election. Every thing they had crawled through the gutter to achieve was now within their grasp, and the roaches finally crawled from the woodwork to claim their prize, namely, the complete overthrow of America. They no longer have to hide. Their work is completed. Agenda 21, the UN Small Arms Treaty, the appointment of muslim judges to major courts by the likes of would-be "conservative" heroes like Chris Christie. Oh, sure, there are still gems to be added to their crowning glory, but that is fast being carried out by all who now corrupt the halls of government.
The ABC agencies have spread their evil into the deepest strongholds, and permeated our guarded secrets and turned them against America's citizens. Criminals cross our borders with reckless abandon, and Christian followers are labelled "enemies and traitors". Tax cheats hold our highest offices, and little people are forced from their jobs, their homes, from all that gives them dignity.
Is there actually anyone out there willing to tell me this can be reversed with a single corrupt election? The machines are rigged, the ability to stop foreign influence was destroyed when BO was allowed to accept funding from across the globe, much of it coming from our mortal enemies. Our allies on the other hand, have suffered similar insults and assaults as those heaped upon this Nation's members. I stand by my e-mail from last night. The time has come. To shut ones eyes after the Malihi fiasco is to just prolong the inevitable. Mexico has been allowed to sue a sovereign American State standing partner with our very own "government". Our National sovereignty is slowly but surely being handed over to foreign entities......Libya, anyone?
From the get-go, those in D.C. KNEW the evil of BO and company. His work for Raila's election, after Raila signed an agreement with the muslim brotherhood. The turning off of EVERY security step on his machines so to accept funds from many in the Middle East trying to "buy" the American Presidency. The refusal on the part of "his" AG to prosecute the New Black Panthers. Do I need to go on? You are the choir.........those of us here already know all the sordid details. We have all watched, and prayed, as "R's" tried to convince us they were NOT part of the evil........RIIIIIIGHT, thank you cry-baby Boehner.
What I think I find most disheartening, is so many of those I consider "My Patriots" trying to decide which of the remaining "four" is the lesser evil. They are ALL "EVIL". I have prayed that the work on the net by Patriots would spur IMMENSE support for Patriots like John Dummett, Tim Cox with goooh, and a handful of others who have tried to break the chains of "party hack" status and take back America as that which our Founding Fathers so desired, "citizen legislators". Too many here just will NOT believe that we could once again have such a mighty show of force for someone not huddled under the mantle of a "D" or an "R".
"If you run an outsider, BO is back in," is the response. Are there REALLY that many who disbelieve after all we have done here in the last four years? "YES!" Mitt, Newt, Rick or Ron are none of them going to save America. IMHO, anyone who has worked here low these many months, and does not understand that, is doomed to watch musloids remove the last vestiges of Liberty from us. BO will once again pay for our Presidency with Middle Eastern money. Whoever wins the "R" backing will only be afforded their "turn" to run. I believe that person has already been chosen by the "R" elites, and it will be Mitt. But that matters little, because based on Malihi, BO WILL serve a second term.......for LIFE!
It is time for watering the Tree of Liberty. The price of that Liberty is eternal vigilance, and we let our guard down. Now the only way, I believe, to set things straight, is to start where our Founders started, and once again BEG GOD to give us the strength and courage to risk our lives, our fortunes, and our Sacred Honor. It's a mighty price, but it sure beats the alternative.
GOD Bless,
Mairi
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Hacker's Demo Shows How Easily Credit Cards Can Be Read Through Clothes And Wallets
Some blank credit cards, a $50 RFID reader and $300 card magnetizing device: all a hacker needs for contactless credit card fraud. (Click to enlarge)
Pull out your credit card and flip it over. If the back is marked with the words "PayPass," "Blink," that triangle of nested arcs that serves as the universal symbol for wireless data or a few other obscure icons, Kristin Paget says it's vulnerable to an uber-stealthy form of pickpocketing. As she showed on a Washington D.C. stage Saturday, she can read all the data she needs to make a fraudulent transaction off that card with just a few hundred dollars worth of equipment, and do it invisibly through your wallet, purse, or pocket.
At the Shmoocon hacker conference, Paget aimed to indisputably prove what hackers have long known and the payment card industry has repeatedly downplayed and denied: That RFID-enabled credit card data can be easily, cheaply, and undetectably stolen and used for fraudulent transactions. With a Vivotech RFID credit card reader she bought on eBay for $50, Paget wirelessly read a volunteer's credit card onstage and obtained the card's number and expiration date, along with the one-time CVV number used by contactless cards to authenticate payments. A second later, she used a $300 card-magnetizing tool to encode that data onto a blank card. And then, with a Square attachment for the iPhone that allows anyone to swipe a card and receive payments, she paid herself $15 of the volunteer's money with the counterfeit card she'd just created. (She also handed the volunteer a twenty dollar bill, essentially selling the bill on stage for $15 to avoid any charges of illegal fraud.)
Paget magnetizing a counterfeit card with a volunteer's wirelessly-stolen credit card data on stage at Shmoocon. (Click to enlarge.)
If anyone still doubted that the trick had worked, Paget accidentally flashed the volunteer's credit card number on a screen in front of an audience of hundreds of hackers and security researchers. "You were planning on cancelling that card, weren't you?" she added somewhat sheepishly.
Contactless cards are far more common than they might seem: According to the Smart Card Association, about 100 million of the RFID-enabled cards are in circulation. Visa calls its technology payWave, MasterCard dubs it PayPass, Discover brands it Zip, and American Express calls it ExpressPay. According to a show of hands among Shmoocon's audience, dozens of the several hundred conference attendees in the room had contactless cards, and about a quarter of those weren't aware of it until Paget asked them pull out their cards and check for contactless symbols.
Paget, a well-known security researcher for the consultancy Recursion Ventures who was known as Christopher Paget until a gender change last May, used a simple method for her hack: impersonating a legitimate contactless point-of-sale terminal with her own RFID card reader. (That's the striped panel pictured above.) In one practical version of the scam, Paget says, a fraudster could simply bump up against his victim with that reader in a coat pocket and invisibly scan the RFID signal through material like a leather wallet or cloth pants. In a demonstration just before her talk, Paget read a card in my wallet through my back pocket without touching me, successfully obtaining the card's information.
The scheme, Paget points out, doesn't involve any hidden bug in the system, but rather the more fundamental problem that any commercially-available RFID reader can read the data from a contactless card as easily as a store's point-of-sale device does. "Whatever encryption or other security there might be, it doesn't matter," she says. "The reader just spits out the number as if I'm the point-of-sales terminal, which is totally stupid. This is an embarrassingly simple hack, but it works."
The attack Paget demonstrated is far from new. The security industry has known since 2006 that contactless credit cards can be read wirelessly without the owner's knowledge. But in current versions of the cards, the user's name, PIN and the three-digit CVV on the back of the card aren't included in the wirelessly-read information, which the industry has argued means the attack isn't practical.
Randy Vanderhoof, executive director of the industry group the Smart Card Alliance, points out that despite previous research on the contactless attack, no real-world instances of the fraud have ever been reported. "We've got six years of history, a hundred million users of these cards, and we haven't seen any documented cases of this kind of fraudulent transaction. The reason we think that's the case is that it's very difficult to monetize this as a criminal," says Vanderhoof. "The premise that this is a new threat is absolutely false and isn't supported by [Paget's] demonstration."
In fact, contactless cards do offer one security feature traditional cards don't: Along with the card's 16-digit number and expiration date, the cards are set to offer up a one-time CVV code with every scan. Those codes can only be used for one transaction, and have to used in the order they're generated. If a payment processor detects multiple transactions with the same code or even codes being used to make transactions in the wrong order, it will disable the card. So a contactless card scammer can only use each stolen number once, and if the victim of a the scam uses the card again before the thief has time to make a fraudulent payment, all transactions on the card will be blocked.
"The truth is that consumers should be embracing this technology because it's making them safer," says Vanderhoof. "Efforts to try to discredit the use of chip technology in cards is only making the users of the existing technology more vulnerable."
But Paget says that rotating one-time CVV only means a fraudster would need to target multiple victims rather than defraud a single victim repeatedly. The scammer could stand in a crowded train station, for instance, reading the card numbers of many passers-by and sending them to an accomplice who carried out the rest of the scheme in real-time. "Instead of one person seeing many fraudulent transactions on their card, fifty people see one transaction on their statement, and maybe they don't even notice it," she says. "The card industry says this isn't possible, but the information they're giving you isn't complete. I needed me to get up on stage and prove it so they would accept that the problems are real."
And now how to solve those problems? Perhaps the simplest solution, Paget advises, is to kill your card's RFID chip by frying it in the microwave. But that's a more delicate task than it might seem. "Three seconds in the microwave will kill the chip," she says. "Five seconds will set it on fire."
Paget's Guardbunny, a credit-card-sized RFID jamming device (Click to enlarge.)
Paget's firm has been working on a more sophisticated fix: a credit-card-shaped protection device known as GuardBunny that sits in a wallet alongside payment cards and blocks any would-be RFID fraudster. Paget says the device, which remains a prototype and still has no roadmap for commercial sale, blocks RFID signals far more effectively than any currently-available RFID-shielding wallet. Commercially-available RFID blockers simply shield cards or passports with a layer of aluminum or steel. Guardbunny, by contrast, reflects back the reader's RFID signal with its own chip, effectively jamming the radio signal. That technique means even high-powered RFID readers would likely fail to pick up any credit card signals nearby. "It doesn't matter how much power you put into it, it just bounces it back at you," Paget says.
Better still, when Guardbunny detects an RFID reader's signal, it emits a high-pitched whining sound and its bunny icon's eyes glow (as pictured) to warn of possible contactless pickpockets.
Paget admits that certain high-level attacks could get around even the Guardbunny's protections. "You can defeat this. But it involves building your own reader," she says. "That's a lot more to demand of the bad guys than spending $50 on eBay."
Petition for NYS Court of Appeals to Rule on Natural Born
From Chad Griffin, American Foundation for Equal Rights
In a court of law, where only truth and facts matter, the evidence was
irrefutable. Witness after witness testified that marriage strengthens
our society and that denying gay and lesbian couples their fundamental
freedom to marry causes direct harm to them and their families. Even
the star witness for the anti-marriage proponents admitted that we, as
a nation, would be more American the moment gay and lesbian couples
are able to marry.
Regrettably, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has decided not to
unseal the video record of the historic twelve-day public trial of
Prop. 8.
AFER will continue to do everything we can to make sure that the
public sees the facts of what happened in that courtroom.
Every day, our team works to educate the public by telling personal
stories of gay and lesbian Americans and their families and actively
corrects misinformation about the myths of allowing gay and lesbian
couples to marry. In partnership with today's most effective issue
leaders and organizational allies, AFER is changing the debate and
changing public opinion.
Our newest endeavor brings the issue of marriage equality to areas
where we need it most. In partnership with Broadway Impact, community
and college theaters across the country will perform Dustin Lance
Black's new play, "8," to spark dialogue, understanding and action.
Based on the actual court transcripts and moving interviews with
AFER's plaintiffs, the play is an unprecedented account of what
happened when discrimination was put on trial.
It speaks volumes that the proponents of Proposition 8 spent millions
on a political campaign to publicize their views, yet they have done
everything they can to stop the public from seeing the weak case they
put on at trial. They know the videotape would expose their baseless
campaign of fear and let the public see the powerful evidence we
submitted showing that Proposition 8 flatly violates the United States
Constitution. That's why they fought so hard to keep the tapes
secret.
In the coming weeks, the Ninth Circuit will rule on the merits of our
case that found Proposition 8 unconstitutional. It is my hope that
the Court will uphold the District Court ruling and stand up for the
freedom to marry.
Sincerely,
Chad H. Griffin
Board President
American Foundation for Equal Rights
See What Happened at the Prop. 8 Trial
Based on the actual court transcripts of the historic Prop. 8 trial,
Dustin Lance Black's play "8" shows the truth about marriage for gay
and lesbian couples.
See footage of the play and find a performance in your area.
Visit
http://www.8theplay.com/
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Antibullying messages sponsored by the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight
Education Network will still be shown on the Jumbotron at Lucas Oil
Stadium during the Super Bowl Sunday, despite right-wing activist
Linda Harvey's call to cancel them.
Harvey (pictured, left), president of the conservative Christian group
Mission America, had written in her online newsletter that GLSEN's
ThinkB4YouSpeak campaign "seeks to instill the false idea that only by
enthusiastically approving of homosexuality and gender confusion can
we prevent bullying." She urged her supporters to pressure
Toronto-based Grazie Media, which owns the Jumbotron at the stadium in
Indianapolis, to withdraw its offer of space for "this shameful
message."
Grazie has not given in, however, and GLSEN is asking that messages of
thanks be sent to the firm; to do so, click here. The GLSEN public
service announcements feature NBA player Grant Hill and comedian Wanda
Sykes warning against saying something is "gay" to mean it's stupid.
"Grazie Media has stood against the pressure, and we want them to know
they did the right thing and have the strongest gratitude of GLSEN
supporters," reads an email from GLSEN. The company needs to hear from
"fair-minded people" who "won't tolerate organized anti-LGBT bigotry,"
GLSEN officials add.
Watch the videos below.
http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2012/02/03/At_Super_Bowl,_Antibullying_PSAs_Will_Go_On/
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Where Is the Fourth Estate When You Need Them?
Posted: 02/ 3/2012 5:17 pm
It seems these days that the Republican debates have become a forum in
which candidates can assert just about anything. With the right amount
of aggression, they are able to avoid answering tough questions by
bullying the moderator into submission (i.e. not asking strong follow
up questions in order to correct the record). We know there is a
certain level of theatrics in politics. The electorate assumes that
candidates will embellish, evade, and even sidestep at times when
asked tough questions. But the line should be drawn when candidates
rewrite history in order to protect or enhance their own self-image,
which isn't based on the truth.
Americans are busy, working hard to support and provide for their
families. They don't have time to parcel out fact from fiction. They
depend on the Fourth Estate to guide them and to hold individuals
running for office, especially the highest office in our country,
accountable. Journalists like Walter Cronkite and Edward R. Murrow
knew it was their duty to know the facts and disseminate them to the
public. That responsibility in today's media world seems to be
diminishing.
As I've watched the Republican presidential primary unfold, I've seen
the candidates successfully deflecting answers to tough questions or
misleading the public, without forceful and timely push back from the
mainstream media. And we all know, the longer a lie or a half truth is
allowed to simmer in the public consciousness without being refuted,
the harder it is to correct misconceptions down the line.
Newt Gingrich has done this the best. He has claimed in debates and
interviews that while serving as Speaker of the House, his leadership
helped create 11 million new jobs, which ultimately led to the
economic boom of the 1990s. He always leaves out one very important
fact, however. The economic boom of the 90s would not have been
possible without President Clinton. Clinton pushed for the passage of
the 1993 Deficit Reduction Act, which proposed increasing taxes on the
wealthiest income earners, cutting programs that weren't working,
taxing corporations at 35%, and extending the earned income tax
credit. Gingrich vehemently opposed the bill and he and every one of
his Republican colleagues voted against it. The deadlock was broken by
then Vice President Al Gore and the bill was signed into law by
President Clinton. Three years later, the economy was surging, and by
the end of Clinton's second term, when Gingrich was forced out of
office by his own party, the Administration recorded a net budget
surplus. It was the first time the US budget had been balanced since
1968. Given these historical facts, how does any pundit or media
outlet allow Gingrich to get away with taking credit for something he
worked so hard to destroy?
Also, recently in a debate moderated by Fox News analyst, Juan
Williams, Gingrich was questioned about controversial remarks he had
made about poverty and African Americans. Gingrich had previously said
black Americans should demand jobs, not food stamps. Juan Williams
attempted to coax Gingrich into acknowledging that he was playing
racial politics. To which Gingrich responded untruthfully that, "more
people have been put on food stamps by Barack Obama than any president
in American history." And there ended that portion of the debate with
Gingrich receiving deafening applause from the audience, looking
strong and principled. What Juan Williams failed to point out in that
moment is that Barack Obama has not put anyone on food stamps. The
grossly irresponsible and greedy practices of those on Wall Street,
which led to the subsequent crash of the housing market, created the
most severe recession our country has experienced since the Great
Depression (which Obama inherited from George W. Bush when he entered
office). These events, along with the continuous deregulation of our
financial sector, conspired to make a record number of people eligible
for government food assistance. Juan Williams completely missed this
important opportunity to reveal the real truth behind Gingrich's
racist assertions.
These kinds of tactics are used frequently by candidates running for
office. Journalists need to stand strong and do their job, which is to
challenge candidates immediately when they are purposefully misleading
the public. They should not be polite or fearful of offending someone
when the truth is in question. As we continue through the primary and
head toward the general election, this is crucial. Without the
mainstream media's commitment to holding candidates accountable, we
have little chance of having a well-informed electorate on Election
Day. And let's look at the facts. The truth is, President Obama's
leadership on the stimulus, bringing the auto industry back from the
brink of collapse, adding nearly 3.7 million private sector jobs in 23
consecutive months of job growth proves that our country is moving in
the right direction. Because of the President's policies, our economy
is on the road to recovery and it's time we start celebrating the
truth.
P.S. Hooray to everyone who supported Planned Parenthood and spoke out
against Susan G. Komen for the Cure, who wrongfully politicized the
issue of women's health. This week we saw how the power of grass roots
activism can lead to positive change. Bravo!
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I think they could sell a lot of them.
Good for walking the dog, Girls night out, unruly neighbors, etc---
Subject: TEXAS FLASHLIGHT
I do not think I would worry about walking in the dark with this flashlight.
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