President Obama Orders Security Review of Election

Seventeen intelligence agencies tell President Obama they have ‘high confidence” that the US elections were tampered with by Russia.  Now President Obama is ordering a new review of the situation.  Shawn Hannity can’t be happy about that.  Lindsey Graham and other members of congress want a review.   I think this is a needed move by our President. 

President Barack Obama has ordered a "deep dive" into the cyberattacks that plagued this year's election, the White House said Friday.  Obama has asked the intelligence community to deliver its final report before he leaves office.  The review will put the spate of hacks — which officials have blamed on Russia — "in a greater context" by framing them against the "malicious cyber activity" that may have occurred around the edges of the 2008 and 2012 president elections, said White House principal deputy press secretary Eric Schultz at a briefing.

"This will be a review that is broad and deep at the same time," he added.

The announcement follows repeated demands from congressional Democrats for more information about the digital assault that destabilized the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton's campaign through much of the election. Schultz insisted the review was "unrelated" to these requests, however. At a Friday morning event, Lisa Monaco, Obama’s counterterrorism and homeland security adviser, explained that the country had "crossed into a new threshold."

Apparently there was a scene in Ferenheit 911 where eggs and other debris were thrown at President elect’s limacine and the mainstream media blacked out coverage.  I’d heard rumors of something like that happening.  The main stream media doesn’t want to tell the American people what’s going on about anything.  Now there are scheduled protests for President Trump’s inaugural but apparently Trump instructed the commission in charge of these things not to grant permits for the protests.  In fact they are going to rope off vast segments of Washington DC so that they can’t protests anywhere.  Of course when it comes to pro life people protesting Roe verses Wade on January 22^nd just two days later, they have no problem with that.   According to Norman Goldman, “fear of potential violence” is not sufficient grounds to disallow it. 

The mainstream media dismisses populism by pushing two absurdly ignorant narratives:

1. Populism (we’re told) always leads to authoritarian rules and/or fascism (i.e. Nazism).All populist movements are therefore tarred with the Nazism brush: no good could possibly come from Populist movements because they always lead to fascism.

This is convenient for the apologists of the embattled status quo, but it’s utterly false: America’s enormous populist movements have never led to fascism.

2. Since the status quo is wonderful and America’s economy is strong, dissent or populism cannot be home-grown–it must be the work of the Devil, in the guise of “foreign propaganda.”

Notice the classic propaganda ploy being deployed here: since dissent is impossible in a regime as well-managed and prosperous as America’s status quo, populism must be driven and controlled by evil foreign agents.

This is laughably absurd: America’s populist movements, including the present one, have been revolts against the concentrated wealth and power of self-serving status quo elites.

If the mainstream media actually employed well-informed analysts rather than empty-headed politically correct parrots, you might have learned that America has a long and rich history of populism that did not lead to authoritarianism or fascism.

In the realm of statistics and "The four movements of Data" you can beware of certain things.  For instance, not all SKEWED data is biased, but all BIASED data is skewed.  Certain things such as incomes or the prices of houses, things involving money, are by their very mathematical nature, skewed toward the higher end.  But many things such as politically based surveys have examiner produced bias because the questions themselves may be skewed either to the left or the right, throwing off the answers.  There is another form of examiner error that crops up and this has to do with Kurtosis and the Standard Deviation Curve.  For instance on an IQ test, if there are too many questions on the page targeted at either blithering idiots or else geniouses- - and no gradation in the center- - then everybody who takes the test is going to answer correctly about half the questions.  Therefore there will be a big spike in the center of the data and little else.  However the opposite could occur.  Every last question on the test could be targeted at someone with an IQ right around 105.  In this case if your IQ is 98 or something, you are going to miss an alarmingly high percentage of the questions.  On the other hand if your IQ is 112 then you will answer almost all of the questions correctly making it look like you did 'really well" on the test, and you may not have done that well.  Some data by its nature has a much wider "standard deviation curve" than other exams.  These are the two borders around the peak where two thirds of the "response" or data occurs.  You might call it the amplitude of the data.  A chart should be calibrated in such a way so that the "volume" or amplitude of the date isn't too peaky like a high mountain range, or two low, like a really low, distant mountain range.  But let me return to my other point.  If it is a political conservative verses liberal survey, then there will be wild extremes in political data because people by their nature have wide ranging political views.  Then you have something where there are narrow tollerances for variance, like say the level of potassium in the blood.  I'm just using that as an example.  There are areas in the middle with a moderate "width" or standard deviation, such as the height of adult men or adult women.  Just in case you are wondering- - it doesn't matter whether the chart runs from two feet to nine feet, or four feet to seven feet, the Kurtosis at least by the way I calculate it, wouldn't change at all.  Kurtosis is spikiness both at the peak and also the "tails" of the bell curve out at the end.  The "tails" and peak would both be identical because it's the Same data.  It's just depicted differently.