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President Obama airs first radio ad target to African Americans.

"Economic growth has continued at a moderate rate so far this year. Real gross domestic product (GDP) rose at an annual rate of about 2 percent in the first quarter after increasing at a 3 percent pace in the fourth quarter of 2011. Growth last quarter was supported by further gains in private domestic demand, which more than offset a drag from a decline in government spending.

Labor market conditions improved in the latter part of 2011 and earlier this year. The unemployment rate has fallen about 1 percentage point since last August; and payroll employment increased 225,000 per month, on average, during the first three months of this year, up from about 150,000 jobs added per month in 2011. In April and May, however, the reported pace of job gains slowed to an average of 75,000 per month, and the unemployment rate ticked up to 8.2 percent".Chair Ben Bernanke

"As a result of this audit, we now know that the Federal Reserve provided more than $16 trillion in total financial assistance to some of the largest financial institutions and corporations in the United States and throughout the world,". "This is a clear case of socialism for the rich and rugged, you're-on-your-own individualism for everyone else."Senator Sanders

Politics Sunday is a hard look at news from the past week and the upcoming week in the political world with commentary and insights into polling tends. Política El domingo es duro noticias mirar la semana pasada y la próxima semana en el mundo político con comentario y visión de mesas de votación tiende

The past week's political events that help shape the American  politics.

Acontecimientos políticos de la semana pasada que ayudan a conformar el cuerpo político estadounidense.

The political magazine with a full cup of Coffee and a few polling numbers in between the refills.

La revista política con una taza llena de café y algunos números de las encuestas entre las recargas.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s victory in a recall election Tuesday amounted to a significant defeat for the nation’s labor unions, which had mounted one of their most aggressive grass-roots campaigns ever to defeat the Republican.WP

Scott Walker beat back Tom Barrett's challenge with 53 percent of the vote in Tuesday's recall election, taking 60 of Wisconsin's 72 counties.Wisconsin State Journal

 

Walker's victory "merely puts President Obama’s reelection campaign in sheer panic mode.Jeff Taylor

“What Mr. Walker and his backers are trying to do is to make Wisconsin — and eventually, America — less of a functioning democracy and more of a third-world-style oligarchy.”Paul Krugman

“This divide and conquer, no-compromise crowd — if they had been in control, there never would have been a United States Constitution.”Bill Clinton

 

Union households were a significantly bigger force this time, making up 33% of the vote compared with 26% of the vote in 2010, a definite boost to Barrett. But despite Walker’s prolonged conflict with labor, he didn’t do any worse with the union vote this time than he did in 2010, according to exit polls. He won 37% of union households in 2010 and 38% in 2012 — about the number that polls show represents the percentage of voters in union households that are Republican.

Warren’s campaign issued a statement last night:

“Elizabeth and (her husband) Bruce are fortunate to be in a position where they can help their family.

They have been able to help relatives buy their homes and her nephew — a contractor — fix up houses.”

According to the Boston Herald:

• Purchasing a foreclosed home . Department of Housing and Urban Development for $61,000 in June 1993, then selling it in December 1994 for $95,000

• Buying a house $30,000 in August 1993, then flipping it for $145,000

• Lending one of her brothers money at 9.5 percent

interest to buy a home $35,000 in August 2000. He sold the place three months later for $38,500

• Providing her brother with financing to buy a $25,000 house in 1994. He sold the property four years later for $42,000

• Giving her sister-in-law a mortgage in 1996 to buy a

$31,000 home Three years later, the sister-in-law sold the place for $45,000

• Providing her brother with a loan in 1997 to buy  for $90,000. He sold it some two years later for $106,000

• Giving her brother a mortgage to  in 1997 for $26,000. Nine years later, he unloaded the

home for $45,00

Elizabeth Warren is not Donald Trump.

Shodan  a cyber search engine developed  in late 2009exposes holes in industrial secuirty systems

Industrial control computers were built to run behind the safety of brick walls. But such security is rapidly eroded by links to the Internet. Recently, an unknown hacker broke into a water plant south of Houston using a default password he found in a user manual. A Shodan user found and accessed the cyclotron at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Yet another user found thousands of unsecured Cisco routers, the computer systems that direct data on the networks.

Over the past two years, Shodan has gathered data on nearly 100 million devices, recording their exact locations and the software systems that run them.

“Expose online devices,” the Web site says. “Webcams. Routers. Power Plants. iPhones. Wind Turbines. Refrigerators. VoIP Phones.”WP

http://www.shodanhq.com/

XP Embedded System

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa460727%28v=winembedded.5%29.aspx

Politics Sunday is a hard look at news from the past week and the upcoming week in the political world with commentary and insights into polling tends. Política El domingo es duro noticias mirar la semana pasada y la próxima semana en el mundo político con comentario y visión de mesas de votación tiende

The past week's political events that help shape the American  politics.

Acontecimientos políticos de la semana pasada que ayudan a conformar el cuerpo político estadounidense.