Video from Symantec on how to hack a voting machine

By Rubashov

We are constantly bombarded by the Media with assurances that our voting process is the best in the world. One can practically hear a chorus of “U.S.A… U.S.A…” as it is done. But if you do a little reading of court records and industry testimony, you find there is a great deal out there that is unsettling.

To demonstrate how vulnerable some of our digital election infrastructure really is, the cyber security experts at Symantec (which is part of the same organization that owns Norton and Broadcom cyber security brands) examined two voting machines. They were last used in State and Federal elections in 2012 and 2013.

In the video below, Symantec performed a cursory review of the vulnerabilities and found numerous deficiencies and ways in for hackers. Symantec claims that “elections are under assault across the globe” and states: “Well-resourced malicious cyber actors have tampered with our elections, whether it’s hacking voting machines or waging information warfare through social media.”

According to the state website, New Jersey uses the controversial Dominion Voting Systems:

Voting Systems Certified by the State of New Jersey

AVANTE International Technology, Inc.
70 Washington Road Princeton Junction, NJ 08550
(609) 799-8896

Dominion Voting Systems
717 17th St., Ste 310 Denver, CO 80202
(416)762-1775; Ext 271

Elections Systems & Software
11208 John Galt Blvd Omaha, NE 68137
(800) 247-8683

Hart InterCivic
15500 Wells Port Drive Austin, TX 78728
(512) 252-6400
Last Updated: 04/28/20

https://www.state.nj.us/state/elections/county-voting-equipment-vvpat.shtml

The Legislature has a duty to do its job and not continue to allow one-man rule by the Governor. It needs to closely examine the election process and its machinery to ensure the system’s integrity.

To date, the Democrat majority has been too lazy to do the job it was elected to do (they still take full perks and pay, however). The most recent example was its party-line vote to table A-4147, legislation that would require the Governor to work with the elected Legislature by limiting his executive power to 14-day increments.

New Jersey voters now face the bizarre reality that the Governors of other states have input into the decision process that affects the economic and physical landscape of their state. And that these elected officials from other states have far more input than the men and women New Jersey voters elect to representative them in the Legislature.

It begs the question of just what the Legislature is for? Through the connivance of Governor Murphy and the Democrat Leadership, the Legislature is being turned into little more than a mid-level holding pen for Democrat patronage appointees waiting for the really big plums. Proving themselves by doing what they’re told.

This is a story that the Media should be reporting. But, as Professor Noam Chomsky wrote in Manufacturing Consent, that might not be something they do anymore…

Summary of Chomsky's analyses on how the corporate media functions. Excerpt from the documentary "Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media" (1992). ...

“Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.”

Noam Chomsky

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Manufacturing Consent: Censorship and BIG TECH monopolies

By Rubashov

The original “progressives” had their own party in America and included both Republicans and Democrats. What came to be known as the Progressive Era in American politics (1900-17) spanned the administrations of two Republican presidents – Theodore Roosevelt and William Taft – and one Democrat, Woodrow Wilson.

Back then, progressives were deeply concerned about monopolies and the concentration of economic and political power in the hands of a few people. In Congress, progressives used the law to break up monopolies and to decentralize and spread out power. That’s a big contrast with many who use the term “progressive” today. So, are they really “progressive” or are they a part of the corporate Establishment that has merely co-opted a “brand” and occupied a space so that people think they have choice, when in fact they have no choice?

Our ability to make choices, to think and speak freely without fear of government or corporate coercion is now in doubt. Yesterday, in hearings before the United States Senate, tech monopolies revealed that they work together to censor and shut down opinions that disagree with ideas or products they are promoting – while they violate your privacy to collect and sell personal information about you.

Pay close attention to the part of this video where U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) questions Facebook’s corporate master…

What we are experiencing is the manufacture of consent. In 1988, Professor Noam Chomsky wrote a book by that name – Manufacturing Consent – explaining the propaganda model of mass media, which explains the media’s ownership, motivations, biases, and methods. Here is a short video from a documentary based on the book Manufacturing Consent…

Chomsky wrote Manufacturing Consent in collaboration with economist Edward S. Herman. Professor Chomsky has written more than 100 books. He is a linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, and social critic. He is Laureate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona and Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He has written extensively on war, politics, and the role played by the mass media.

Professor Chomsky rose to national prominence as an outspoken opponent of the Vietnam War. He was part of what was then called “the New Left” and was arrested multiple times for his activism and placed on President Richard Nixon's Enemies List (an early form of “canceling” and not unlike what is now being proposed by Congressman Bill Pascrell and others).

Professor Chomsky worked to expose the Indonesian occupation of East Timor, in contrast with such establishment Democrats as Josh Gottheimer (who once worked for the public relations firm that lobbied for the genocidal totalitarians who murdered upwards of 200,000 Roman Catholics). Chomsky opposed the 2003 invasion of Iraq (which, like the Gulf of Tonkin incident that began the Vietnam War, was based on a lie… Weapons of Mass Destruction).

As we move forward through the minefields of Big Tech censorship, abrogation of the Bill of Rights, and emergency edicts attendant with the COVID pandemic – we should use Professor Chomsky as a guide in examining the role of the media in promoting fear and compliance instead of asking tough questions of corporate Establishment types like Governor Phil Murphy. And we must always bear in mind the concerns voiced by U.S. Senator Frank Church (D-Idaho), in 1975, about the technology available then and its deadly potential for democracy:

“If this government ever became a tyranny, if a dictator ever took charge in this country, the technological capacity that the intelligence community has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back because the most careful effort to combine together in resistance to the government, no matter how privately it was done, is within the reach of the government to know. Such is the capability of this technology.

I don't want to see this country ever go across the bridge. I know the capacity that is there to make tyranny total in America, and we must see to it that this agency and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision so that we never cross over that abyss. That is the abyss from which there is no return.”

"...Facebook censorship teams communicate with their counterparts at Twitter and Google and then enter those companies' suggestions for censorship onto the Task platform so that Facebook can follow up with them and effectively coordinate their censorship efforts."

U.S. Senator Josh Hawley
November 17, 2020

The Media: Manufacturing Consent (Noam Chomsky)

By Rubashov

Noam Chomsky has written more than 100 books. He is a linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, and social critic. He is Laureate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona and Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He has written extensively on war, politics, and the role played by the mass media.

Professor Chomsky rose to national prominence as an outspoken opponent of the Vietnam War. He was part of what was then called “the New Left” and was arrested multiple times for his activism and placed on President Richard Nixon's Enemies List (an early form of “canceling” and not unlike what is now being proposed by Congresswoman A.O.C. and others).

Professor Chomsky worked to expose the Indonesian occupation of East Timor, in contrast with such establishment Democrats as Josh Gottheimer (who once worked for the public relations firm that lobbied for the genocidal totalitarians who murdered upwards of 200,000 Roman Catholics).

Chomsky opposed the 2003 invasion of Iraq (which, like the Gulf of Tonkin incident that began the Vietnam War, was based on a lie… Weapons of Mass Destruction).

In 1988, Professor Chomsky wrote Manufacturing Consent in collaboration with economist Edward S. Herman. In it, Chomsky articulated the propaganda model of media criticism, which explains the media’s ownership, motivations, biases, and methods. Here is a short video from a documentary based on the book Manufacturing Consent…

In contrast with those on the Establishment (aka “corporate”) “Left” – which includes elements of the Democrat Party – Noam Chomsky is a fierce defender of Freedom of Speech.**.Chomsky’s warnings in Manufacturing Consent should be required reading in every school district in America– right alongside the Church Report (aka The United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities) which was a 1975 study, chaired by Senator Frank Church, that investigated abuses by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), National Security Agency (NSA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

Both major political parties have a checkered history of aiding and abetting abuses by these and other agencies. For three years, the media largely bought into and promoted the Russiagate conspiracy theory – just as it had the Weapons of Mass Destruction conspiracy theory and the Gulf of Tonkin conspiracy theory that led directly to our longest (undeclared) wars. In the election just concluded, key figures in both the Democrat and Republican parties worked with these agencies in a manner that has proved the warnings of Frank Church to be prescient.

As we move forward through the minefields of executive orders, abrogation of the Bill of Rights, and emergency edicts attendant with the COVID pandemic – we should use Professor Chomsky as a guide in examining the role of the media in promoting fear and compliance instead of asking tough questions of corporate Establishment types like Governor Phil Murphy. And we must always bear in mind the concerns voiced by Senator Frank Church, in 1975, about the technology available then and its deadly potential for democracy.

“If this government ever became a tyranny, if a dictator ever took charge in this country, the technological capacity that the intelligence community has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back because the most careful effort to combine together in resistance to the government, no matter how privately it was done, is within the reach of the government to know. Such is the capability of this technology. I don't want to see this country ever go across the bridge. I know the capacity that is there to make tyranny total in America, and we must see to it that this agency and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision so that we never cross over that abyss. That is the abyss from which there is no return.”

United States Senator Frank Church (D-Idaho)
Meet the Press
August 17, 1975