Don’t buy it.
Paper Ballots, everyone. It’s high time to go retro and return to physical voting ballots. Hacking has influenced some top security agencies in Germany to retrain their agents on communicating by a typewriter. You heard me, a typewriter,the type you may have seen on the show Mad Men.
I posted the sudden disappearance of all Obama Birth Certificate thumbnails on FreeRepublic and others then started noticing the difficulty in finding images to look at the BC. It took almost a week before public outcry resulted in Google replacing the thumbnails with correct images. They claimed it was a single employee who did it. Sure. . . right. . . Do a search for Obama Birth Certificate and get photos of groups of people, the White House, even Palm Trees? But no birth certificates??? Click on the thumbnails of any of them and it would still take you to a photo of the birth certificate website, or the photo itself, but the thumbnail was wrong.
They have politicususa appear as a legitimate news site when you do searches, so this isn’t a surprise.
Search engines - and their algorithms - prey on the undecideds. It is our job as the elections approach to talk to everyone we can about our candidate and the dangers presented by theirs.
Enough is enough!!!
It’s pure coincidence that Obama meets frequently with the pointy heads at Google and facebook.
I’m going to do a web search on that.
Thanks very much for posting this article.
Admittedly, I am a computer dunce, but even I notice Google’s bias; most notably when searching for ugly or unflattering photos of demonic-rats to use on our FReepathon threads.
Of course, whenever I search for articles, I’ve also noted Google’s bias against conservative politicians. Sure enough, the stories spiked at the top are almost always negative, despite the date and time the said articles were originally posted.
I believe that most Americans are damn sick and tired of what Zero's been doing to the country over the last seven years, and that they're ready for a radical change from the 'business as usual' politics of Washington.
Note that the top tier Republican candidates are all political outsiders. Even on the Dem side, a 73 year old wackadoodle socialist is about to eclipse Mrs. Inevitable Establishment Politician.
Yeah, Google is really helping the Uniparty candidates.....not.
The country is on fire. Google is only going to be able to influence a small portion of the people to move toward an establishment candidate.
Your suspicions are only the tip of the iceberg Swordmaker.
Google has long been in negotiations with Obama-related progressives, and some brilliant political activists including John Koza, Stanford Professor and the author of one of the most successful revenue generators, the code used to manage public lotteries. Koza was identified as a major architect of a bid to designate Google as the official tabulation authority for U.S. voting, both state and federal elections. I worked with Koza and know he has the technical expertise to implement such a system I am a little puzzled at why an international authority in applied probability would want to undertake what should be a simple tabulating system. And that makes me suspicious, since besides Genetic Programming, the lottery software has made Koza many times a millionaire, and I know he admires George Soros. Tabulating votes should not depend upon probability calculations.
Today there is no audit trail for votes. It hardly matters that we don’t ALLOW id cards in precincts. We have no way to verify who voted or for whom anyway. Computer scientists have found this set of problems a rich one for student thesis, along with the regularly successful hack the voting machine exercises. Today, counting votes is a myth, with the SEIU overseeing presumed counts sent to servers managed by the SEIU. We have no way to check the validity of counts at precincts, to verify that counts at precincts were sent unmodified to state servers, or to verify that what was passed to federal attorneys general was unmodified. That is why “recounts” can continue until some authority decides who should have won, like Al Franken, or who should have lost, like Allen West.
As a computer developer I won’t throw obscure technical claims about, but will mention some experience I had with the FDA when I was involved with what was called a Laboratory Information Management system, LIMS, for a major pharmaceutical. When drugs are manufactured part of the FDA approval process involves proving that every step performed by computer controlled instruments is audited, results are stored in a database and no human has had access to any part of the process. The FDA were tough, as they should have been. They required audit trails before they would consider the validity or even allow public trials, and companies, always concerned with liability, wanted the same assurances. Today both major political parties have participated in eliminating any possibility of verifying votes.
I mentioned Mexico as an example of honest and verifiable elections. It was a surprise to me too. Here is a lecture by an amazing woman, Catherine Engelbrecht, who, concerned with minor irregularities in local precinct voting in Texas, started up a non-profit corporation, “True The Vote”, to try to improve things. She ran two businesses, is a mother of two, along with True the Vote. After four years, 23 investigations involving IRS audits, FBI visits, ATF visits to check on the guns she had a license to repair, but had never seen because she and her husband had never executed, a fact well known to the ATF, public attacks by congressman Elijah Cummings, demands that she document any twitter messages or emails concerning political views she had, or might have in the future, submit all her twitter messages and emails, and an unending bombardment by the Obama administration’s goons, she was granted, under duress, a 501c3 status.
In a fascinating interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwESjprP8-0 she described some of what we ignorantly regard as an election system. She told about the Mexican system where voters all need ID cards with biological profile information to vote, and paper ballots are placed in Lucite containers, visible to everyone in the precinct, with each container labeled clearly, sealed and guarded throughout the tabulating period so that a recount, if necessary or requested, is always possible. The U.S. once had similar mechanisms, with ballots counted at each precinct in the presence of authorized auditors, boxes tallied and sealed, shipped to bonded storage until the election was final. We need to return to honest elections and Mexico is a shining example. Google running elections would make elections, as businesses buy priority on search engines today, even more of an auction.
All it takes is an algorithm.
There’s a whole generation who barely even know who the Beatles are, never mind James Madison.
Barack Obama was elected president twice because of too little googling, not too much.
I use Bing.
The author was interviewed and made this statement:
“The biggest shift was in moderate Republicans. They are most vulnerable to this kind of manipulation. “
The point is to be aware and to educate voters.
Stealing The Presidency - Study Google Search Results Influence Votes - America’s Election HQ - F&F
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3324973/posts
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Stealing The Presidency - Study Google Search Results Influence Votes - America’s Election HQ - F&F
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ-A3c3vWDM
On topic: electrical binary communication started in a big way after the 1844 demonstration of the telegraph and Morse Code by Samuel Morse. By 1848 the New York Associated Press was formed. It soon changed its name to just the Associated Press. The AP has been the dominant feature American journalism ever since. The trouble with that is thatPeople of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary. - Adam Smith, Wealth of NationsSince people of the trade of journalism have been in 24/7 communication, precisely about what the news is, we have to understand that it was inevitable that journalists should have been “conspiring against the public” long before you and I were born. Even before our fathers - if not grandfathers - were born. But what would you expect such conspiracy to do to the public? What do journalists and their employers, and the AP to which their employers belong, want?Clearly, they want to attract attention, they want to be believed, and they want to be influential. So they claim to be objective, notwithstanding that such a claim is supported by nothing but their own propaganda. Indeed, if you recognize that the only way for you to make a serious attempt at being objective starts from accepting the possibility that “where you stand really depends on where you sit,” you understand that claiming to actually be objective forecloses the possibility that you are even trying to be objective.
In his “Man in the Arena” quote, Theodore Roosevelt famously said, “It is not the critic who counts.” Journalists, tho, are critics. They certainly are not “the man who is actually in the arena,” who has to take action before all the ramifications of his actions are manifest. No, they are the second guessers, who never can be wrong because they can always change the subject.
Why do I claim that this is “on topic” to a thread about "bias in Google?” Because Google has the same incentives as the rest of “the media,” and we all know that the rest of the media is “liberal.” In fact, any news/opinion operation which is not explicitly conservative will “go liberal” if indeed it doesn’t start out that way. O’Sullivan’s First Law.