Showing posts with label right wingers sabotage Obamacare. Show all posts
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FOCUS: Andy Borowitz | Supreme Court Defends Wealthy's Right to Own Government
Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Borowitz writes: "By a five-to-four decision, the United States Supreme Court today defended the right of the wealthiest Americans to own the United States government."
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FOCUS: Robert Reich | The Jobs Report and
the Supreme Court's 'McCutcheon' Debacle
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog
Reich writes: "What does the Supreme Court's 'McCutcheon' decision this week have to do with today's jobs report, showing 192,000 new jobs for March?"
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Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog
Reich writes: "What does the Supreme Court's 'McCutcheon' decision this week have to do with today's jobs report, showing 192,000 new jobs for March?"
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Charles Pierce
| A Case Study in GOP Cannibalism
Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "In Wisconsin's Sixth Congressional District, there's a Republican incumbent named Tom Petri. He seems like an unremarkable sort. He has been in office for 35 years."
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Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "In Wisconsin's Sixth Congressional District, there's a Republican incumbent named Tom Petri. He seems like an unremarkable sort. He has been in office for 35 years."
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Paul Ryan
Accidentally Reveals the Truth About the GOP's Obamacare
Replacement
Igor Volsky, ThinkProgress
Volsky reports: "House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) admitted on Friday that Republicans would not be able to preserve the most popular elements of Obamacare if they repeal the law as a whole."
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Igor Volsky, ThinkProgress
Volsky reports: "House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) admitted on Friday that Republicans would not be able to preserve the most popular elements of Obamacare if they repeal the law as a whole."
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McCutcheon
Ruling Spurs Rush for Cash in Both Parties
Nicholas Confessore, The New York Times
Confessore writes: "As constitutional scholars digest the court's decision, it has already set off a bipartisan scramble for campaign cash, thrusting party leaders, lawmakers with leadership PACs, and candidates into a fierce competition."
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Nicholas Confessore, The New York Times
Confessore writes: "As constitutional scholars digest the court's decision, it has already set off a bipartisan scramble for campaign cash, thrusting party leaders, lawmakers with leadership PACs, and candidates into a fierce competition."
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Democrats Try
to Make the Koch Brothers the New Face of the GOP
Kathleen Parker, The Washington Post
Parker writes: "Rush Limbaugh can relax. The popular 'demon of the right' has been replaced at least through the midterms by the Koch brothers, Charles and David."
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Kathleen Parker, The Washington Post
Parker writes: "Rush Limbaugh can relax. The popular 'demon of the right' has been replaced at least through the midterms by the Koch brothers, Charles and David."
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NYPD Officer
Embroiled in Assault Trial Sued by Another Occupy Campaigner
Jon Swaine, Guardian UK
Swaine writes: "A New York police officer whose allegation of assault against an Occupy Wall Street activist could send her to prison for seven years is being sued by another Occupy campaigner, who alleges that the officer injured him on the same day."
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Jon Swaine, Guardian UK
Swaine writes: "A New York police officer whose allegation of assault against an Occupy Wall Street activist could send her to prison for seven years is being sued by another Occupy campaigner, who alleges that the officer injured him on the same day."
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Kumi Naidoo |
The Unquenchable Thirst of an Expanding Coal Industry
Kumi Naidoo, Guardian UK
Naidoo writes: "An oasis is a body of water, ringed by greenery and beyond that, a lifeless, endless landscape that coughs up dust and sand whenever the wind touches it. It is a globally understood symbol of something precious, fragile and rare."
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Kumi Naidoo, Guardian UK
Naidoo writes: "An oasis is a body of water, ringed by greenery and beyond that, a lifeless, endless landscape that coughs up dust and sand whenever the wind touches it. It is a globally understood symbol of something precious, fragile and rare."
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Saturday, November 23, 2013
Roundup
Sunday, November 17, 2013
Right Wingers Sabotage Obamacare!
Chairman McCaul Questions Witnesses at Hearing on Cybersecurity....
Published on Nov 13, 2013
Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, questions witnesses at a hearing entitled "Cyber Side-Effects: How Secure is the Personal Information Entered into the Flawed Healthcare.gov?" 11-11-13
Right wing cyber attacks on Healthcare.gov website confirmed
November 14, 2013
Yesterday, the House Homeland Security Committee published a video on their Youtube page highlighting a portion of the committee questioning Roberta Stempfley, acting assistant secretary of the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Cyber-security and Communications, who confirmed at least 16 attacks on the Affordable Care Act’s portal Healthcare.gov website in 2013.
Roberta Stempfley highlighted one successful attack that is designed to deny access to the website called a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. A DDoS attack is designed to make a network unavailable to intended users, generally through a concerted effort to disrupt service such as repeatedly accessing the servers, saturating them with more traffic than the website is designed to handle.
Right wingers have been distributing the link to the necessary tools to perform the attacks on the Healthcare.gov website through social networking, as pointed out by Information Week, and other websites .
The name of the attack tool is called, "Destroy Obama Care!"
"Destroy Obama Care!", that's the advertised name given to the attack tool by "right wing patriots" who are distributing the DDoS tool through downloads on social networks, which promises to overwhelm the Healthcare.gov website.
"This program continually displays alternate page of the ObamaCare website. It has no virus, Trojans, worms, or cookies. The purpose is to overload the ObamaCare website, to deny service to users and perhaps overload and crash the system," reads the program's grammar- and spelling-challenged "about" screen. "You can open as many copies of this program as you want. Each copy opens multiple links to the site."
"ObamaCare is an affront to the Constitutional rights of the people," it adds. "We have the right to civil disobedience!"
Marc Eisenbarth, research manager at the DDoS defense firm Arbor Networks says that the DDoS attack tool has been used in the past to attack perceived political wrongs.
"This application continues a trend Arbor is seeing with denial-of-service attacks being used as a means of retaliation against a policy, legal rulings or government actions," said Eisenbarth.
Some online news sites have talked about this attack tool being distributed by right wingers, and Congress held hearings this week and talked about the attacks, but there is not one mainstream news organization that seems to be interested. But they all continue to talk about the Healthcare.gov website not working as it should, and if it will be ready by the White House's self imposed deadline of December 1, 2013.
And if you watch the attached video of the questioning of Roberta Stempfley, by Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX), they both are aware of the attacks, but neither mentions the website attack tool, “Destroy Obama Care!”. The Republican asking the questions obviously has the agenda of attacking the Affordable Care Act as all Republicans do, and it would not be in his best interests to mention that people on his side of the aisle are attacking it. And the DHS did not bring it up for obvious reasons of not wanting to advertise the attack tool.
A link to the attack tool “Destroy Obama Care!” was specifically omitted from this report for the same obvious reasons.
http://www.examiner.com/article/right-wing-cyber-attacks-on-healthcare-gov-website-confirmed
Roberta Stempfley highlighted one successful attack that is designed to deny access to the website called a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. A DDoS attack is designed to make a network unavailable to intended users, generally through a concerted effort to disrupt service such as repeatedly accessing the servers, saturating them with more traffic than the website is designed to handle.
Right wingers have been distributing the link to the necessary tools to perform the attacks on the Healthcare.gov website through social networking, as pointed out by Information Week, and other websites .
The name of the attack tool is called, "Destroy Obama Care!"
"Destroy Obama Care!", that's the advertised name given to the attack tool by "right wing patriots" who are distributing the DDoS tool through downloads on social networks, which promises to overwhelm the Healthcare.gov website.
"This program continually displays alternate page of the ObamaCare website. It has no virus, Trojans, worms, or cookies. The purpose is to overload the ObamaCare website, to deny service to users and perhaps overload and crash the system," reads the program's grammar- and spelling-challenged "about" screen. "You can open as many copies of this program as you want. Each copy opens multiple links to the site."Marc Eisenbarth, research manager at the DDoS defense firm Arbor Networks says that the DDoS attack tool has been used in the past to attack perceived political wrongs.
"ObamaCare is an affront to the Constitutional rights of the people," it adds. "We have the right to civil disobedience!"
"This application continues a trend Arbor is seeing with denial-of-service attacks being used as a means of retaliation against a policy, legal rulings or government actions," said Eisenbarth.Some online news sites have talked about this attack tool being distributed by right wingers, and Congress held hearings this week and talked about the attacks, but there is not one mainstream news organization that seems to be interested. But they all continue to talk about the Healthcare.gov website not working as it should, and if it will be ready by the White House's self imposed deadline of December 1, 2013.
And if you watch the attached video of the questioning of Roberta Stempfley, by Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX), they both are aware of the attacks, but neither mentions the website attack tool, “Destroy Obama Care!”. The Republican asking the questions obviously has the agenda of attacking the Affordable Care Act as all Republicans do, and it would not be in his best interests to mention that people on his side of the aisle are attacking it. And the DHS did not bring it up for obvious reasons of not wanting to advertise the attack tool.
A link to the attack tool “Destroy Obama Care!” was specifically omitted from this report for the same obvious reasons.
http://www.examiner.com/article/right-wing-cyber-attacks-on-healthcare-gov-website-confirmed
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