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Airbus Group chief executive Tom Enders took the controls of the two-seat Perlan II glider during a 10min test flight on 7 May from the windswept, high-desert airport in Minden, Nevada, raising the public profile of a volunteer team of aviation adventurers hoping to make history in about four months. Afterwards, Enders – a licensed helicopter pilot and skydiving enthusiast – pronounced the Airbus-sponsored composite vehicle ready to achieve the Perlan team’s goal of shattering the winged altitude record of 85,069ft set by the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird in 1976, using a unique and barely understood weather phenomenon instead of afterburning...

Microsoft has made a change to an update for Windows 7 that can prevent certain systems from booting. While you might expect me to say, "good news, the software giant has fixed the problem", in fact what Microsoft has done is switch the update from "optional", to "recommended". So, on some systems, it will now install, and break Windows 7 automatically. There is good news though, and that’s you can solve the problem and get your computer working again by (can you guess?) upgrading to Windows 10. Hooray! The update in question is KB3133977 and what this does is fix...

DemocracyNow.org - Controversy erupted on the convention floor when a dispute broke out over whether to seat the delegates of presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul of Texas. Part of Maine's delegation stormed off the floor in protest of a decision to strip away half of Paul's delegates. Supportive members of other delegations rose to their feet and hollered their objections, angered by new rules that they say they will make it harder for grassroots candidates to stand a chance in future elections. Democracy Now! producer Deena Guzder was on the scene and filed this report.

Report: Ted Cruz Prepares for "Somber Speech" Tonight Aide tells AP if Cruz loses, staffing cuts are likely He has campaigned hard in Indiana, but a report suggests Ted Cruz is not expecting to win. An aide to the Cruz campaign whose name was not given told the Associated Press that the Republican candidate is preparing for what the aide called a "very somber" speech at his election watch party in Indianapolis tonight. Though Cruz says he will stay in the presidential race even if he loses the Indiana primary to Donald Trump - and despite his public alliance with...

Donald Trump is unfit to be president of the United States for reasons almost too numerous to mention. [....] Voters will not forget those individuals who supported Mr. Trump. And any Republican who endangers our nation by supporting Donald Trump will not be trusted again. David Meyers worked in the West Wing of the White House as Assistant Staff Secretary from 2006 to 2009 and Communications Project Director. From 2009 to 2010, he worked as a Communications Advisor for the Senate Republican Leadership. He is now an actor, writer, and Ph.D. candidate in Political Science.

A lawyer who once represented the woman known as the "DC Madam" circulated documents Monday that he says contain the names of 174 government entities and businesses that were among the sources of phone calls to his former client. Montgomery Blair Sibley has been promising that the phone records he has could affect the 2016 presidential election, but the papers he emailed to the media this week did not contain any obvious connections to the campaigns. There was also no evidence of any wrongdoing on the part of the agencies or companies whose names he released. "I am not releasing...

On Monday, the former lawyer of the late Deborah Jeane Palfrey—known as the “D.C. Madam”—released some names of the government agencies, companies, and groups that purportedly called Palfrey’s escort service between 2000 and 2006. In the court filing, lawyer Montgomery Blair Sibley listed 174 entities that had dialed the service, Pamela Martin & Associates. The roster includes the FBI, State Department, Department of Commerce, Department of Health and Human Services, IRS, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, and U.S. Coast Guard. So far, no names of specific individuals from this list of 174 have been released. (Since February, Sibley has...

Rep. Tom Feeney (Fmr. Speaker of The House in Florida) employed this man from Oviedo, FL to rig elections and flip them 51% to 49%. Exit polling data was proven to be significantly different than the published results. Rep. Feeney was also the lobbyist for Yang Enterprises, the company who delivered the program.

Big news in the Hispanic community – Hispanic Patriots founder [Dah-leeth] Dahlys Hamilton – a very well known and respected Hispanic leader has finally given up on Ted Cruz: "I'M GETTING OFF "LYIN' TED'S" CRUZ SHIP AND BOARDING THE TRUMP TRAIN! After spending several months researching, and asking the Lord to reveal the truth to me about this election, when the revelations started coming, I really did not want to believe what I was uncovering. Ultimately, I had no choice but to admit I have been deceived--and so have many of you." Hamilton organized an event in Georgia last year...

We were hoping against hope that this would not continue, but I guess until some law enforcement agency is willing to stand up and stop it, the Cruzers will continue unabated. Wisconsin TV station WKOW TV, the ABC affiliate in Madison, started getting voter fraud calls early this morning. Apparently voting machines would not let some voters vote for Donald Trump “The station has spoken with multiple witnesses and is in the process of verifying statements from Burnett, Clark, Dane, Polk and Portage counties.” According to Jeremy Rogers from Burnett county: “It was the strangest thing. The machine literally would...

Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski has been arrested and charged with simple battery after surveillance video showed him grabbing journalist Michelle Fields at a campaign event in Florida, police say. More at bnonews.com and on Twitter @bnonews

RICHMOND, Va. -- The Virginia State Board of Elections voted Tuesday to decertify WinVote Direct Recording Electronic voting systems in Virginia Elections. WinVote machines were used in 20 percent of Virginia's voting precincts including some in Henrico County and Richmond. The board voted to decertify the machines after some voters experienced "widely reported issues" during the November 2014 General Election. During the 2014 General Election, some voting machines around Virginia appeared to only let voters choose one candidate, regardless of whose name was pressed.

Executive Summary The enactment of House Bill 08-1155 provides the Secretary of State (Secretary) with increased authority over the testing process and allows for additional testing and communication with the vendors and counties by this office. The legislation allows for an order to decertify a voting system to be amended or rescinded if it is determined that the major deficiencies have been resolved or mitigated. As part of the decision to amend or rescind an order, HB1155 allows the Secretary to consider the “accuracy and security procedures, audits, processing functions, and other relevant procedures used by county clerks and recorders...

A disturbing new attack on a Diebold touch-screen voting system, as created and demonstrated by Argonne National Lab's Vulnerability Assessment Team (VAT). Allows votes to be changed remotely, without requiring any knowledge of, or any change to, the voting system's software. Little more than $10.50 for parts (another $15 for the optional remote control, allowing access from up to half a mile a way), and an 8th grade science lab education is just about all that's needed to change the vote of any voter without detection.

Thom Hartmann shares a letter to the editor in the Topeka Capital Journal regarding allegations of election fraud in the Sam Brownback election for Governor of Kansas.

Austin radio station KLBJ received around a half dozen complaints on Tuesday that Texas voting machines had change their votes, mostly from Donald Trump to Sen. Marco Rubio. The hosts of KLBJ’s Todd And Don Show noted that three callers had already complained about their votes being switched from Trump to Rubio when a fourth caller dialed in to say her ballot had been switched from Trump to Linda Gray. “That’s not good,” one of the hosts agreed. “You are the fourth person to call us in the past half hour to say they had that same problem. They voted...

A local FOX news station in Ohio investigated allegations of voter fraud in the Maine Caucus. During its investigation, it found that many cities had not been counted in the vote tally which supposedly elected Mitt Romney over Ron Paul. Brevard Times corrected its article on the Maine results last Sunday from Mitt Romney wins to Mitt Romney did not win the Maine Caucus. The allegations are disturbing that the Republican Party in Maine, like Iowa, delayed announcing that Mitt Romney had actually lost those races. The delayed Iowa results stole momentum from Rick Santorum going into New Hampshire while...

Vote fraud may be the final solution (Infowars) – According to Rep. Steve King, an Iowa Republican, the Republican establishment may give tacit support to Hillary Clinton if Donald Trump wins the nomination. King said Clinton is somebody “they can do business with” if Cruz or Trump come out on top. [....] As a wrecking ball Trump will likely swing the election in Clinton’s corner, although many observers are convinced he will beat her and become the next president. This underestimates the control the establishment has over the “democratic” election process. On Tuesday in Texas voters complainedvotes for Trump were...

(The Hill) – An image of a swastika made out of Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump’s last name has appeared outside a Super Tuesday polling location in Houston, according to several reports. The poster uses “Trump” four times to create the image of a swastika, with the word “Stop” written below in large capital letters. The sign was located outside of rival Ted Cruz’s polling place, according to a reporter from The Guardian.

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