Hacking Traffic Lights

A University of Michigan study led by J Alex Halderman has revealed that the nation’s traffic control system is laughably easy to take over.

The study said all that was needed was a laptop computer with a wireless card that could communicate at the same frequency used by the traffic lights, and the systems passwords. It was noted that the passwords and usernames in use were often the default ones.

Hacking Traffic Lights

Hacking Traffic Lights

Pennsylvania Seed Library Smacked Down By State

The Cumberland County Library System thought it had a neat idea. With the local Penn State Agricultural Extension System and the Cumberland County Commission for Women, it created a seed-gardening program — aka a seed library — that allowed residents to “borrow” seeds in the spring and replace them with new ones harvested at season’s end.

It was launched on April 26, Earth Day, at the Joseph T. Simpson’ Public Library in Mechanicsburg as part of the borough’s Earth Day Festival.

Sixty signed up.

Oh pity them for they didn’t realize they were part of a nefarious plot to violateĀ  the Pennsylvania Seed Act of 2004 signed into law by then Gov. Ed Rendell.

The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture sent a high-ranking official and a bevy of lawyers to the library in July to shut the program down and make sure those running things got their minds right.

The Seed Act is about proper labeling in the sale of seeds, which the library was not doing. Apparently our state officials feared the seeds might be mislabeled on purpose hence allowing terrorists to spread poison ivy or some such thing.

Some cynics think the crackdown is because big agriculture doesn’t want competition no matter how small.

When is it going to dawn on the rest of you that really stupid and/or greedy people are governing our lives?

Hat tips Tom Flocco and Naomi Creason of the Sentinel of Cumberland County.

Pennsylvania Seed Library Smacked Down By State

 

Pennsylvania Seed Library Smacked Down By State

Malik Obama, Terrorist Supporter

Malik Obama, Terrorist Supporter
The scarf Malik Obama is wearing calls for the conquest of Israel.

Malik Obama, the half brother of the President who was best man at the President’s wedding, is rasing money for the terrorist organization Hamas it is being reported.

Malik has been a visitor to the White House and is president of theĀ  tax-exempt Barack H. Obama Foundation. It turns out that he is also executive secretary of the Islamic Da’wa Organization. Here’s their Facebook page. Gee, only 392 likes.

Anyway, Islamic Da’wa apparently raises money for martyrdom operations.

So maybe Malik O is just a useful tool not knowing what is going on — sort of like Billy Carter and the Libyans.

 

To my Jewish friends who voted for his brother, whatever where you thinking? The same goes for my other friends who voted for Barry.

Hat tip Bryan Preston

Malik Obama, Terrorist Supporter

Funding Jihadists While Denying Military Benefits

Andrew C. McCarthy, the fed prosecutor who successfully convicted the first World Trade Center bombers, has a fascinating column at NationalReview.com pointing out the Obama Administration fought like a badger to keep from getting military survivors their rightful death benefits while insisting on supplying foreign aid to jiadists in Syria.

McCarthy notes that Obama only allowed the death benefits after a unified response from the GOP.

“Democrats can be moved if unified Republicans make the pressure intense enough,” McCarthy noted.

Will Iran’s Charm Offensive Fool Obama?

By Keith Phucas

The real moment of truth for the Obama administration may come next week when Iranian President Hassan Rouhani flies to the U.S. in hopes of cutting a favorable deal on Iran’s nuclear program.

Will the U.S. continue to support punitive measures against Iran for its nuclear development or soften its position?

Numerous economic sanctions have been imposed on Iran since 2006 for continuing with its nuclear development and not allowing inspectors to verify all of the country’s nuclear activities. The regime insists its program is strictly for its energy needs.

The sanctions, imposed by United Nations Security Council resolutions, have significantly cut Iran’s oil exports and isolated the country from international banking systems, and the country is seeking relief from the crippling measures.

Yet, Iran continues enriching uranium in “clear contravention” of U.N. resolutions, according to International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director-General Yukiyo Amano. And, if the regime is able eventually to produce highly-enriched uranium, that fissile material would be ideal for nuclear warheads.

Given Tehran’s hostility toward Israel and Iran’s insistence on forging ahead with its nuclear plans, Israel signaled several years back that it might attack Iran’s nuclear sites.

Recently it was revealed Rouhani and President Obama have exchanged letters that the new Iranian leader described as “positive and constructive.”

The U.N. Security Council meets next week. And after witnessing the U.S. president’s Syria Shuffle — first threatening to attack Syria for using chemical weapons, then backing down — the Iranian leadership sensed a fresh opportunity to negotiate with the U.S. over Iran’s nuclear program and launched a so-called “charm offensive.”

Read more about Iran’s Charm Offensive at Keith Phucas’ Delco Conservative

Steve Bucci Provides Inside 9/11 Insight

Ā Steve Bucci Provides Inside 9/11 Insight

With Steve Bucci (second from right) are Delaware County Patriots Mary Ellen Jones, Chuck Martini and Lisa Esler.

The Delaware County Patriots drew a crowd of 100 to the Newtown Square Knights of Columbus Hall, Sept. 11, to hear a man who had a front row seat of the first 9/11.

Steve Bucci, a former Special Forces officer who now heads the Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies at Heritage Foundation, became an assistant to then Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in July 2001. His wife, a nurse practitioner, was looking for work and he suggested her for the clinic at the Pentagon. The day of her interview, she put on a nice dress, high heels and jewelry and rode in early with her husband. It was Sept. 11.

Bucci was breakfasting with congressmen with the television on when they saw the first plane hit the World Trade Center. They felt it was pilot error. They were then watching what they thought was a replay when it dawned on them that it was a second plane. Bucci said they quickly determined we were under attack and went to a secure site in the building to plan a response.Ā  It was there he felt the building shake when the third plane struck. He looked for Rumsfeld and was told the Secretary went to the crash site.

“It was not a photo op,” Bucci said. Rumsfeld was manning stretchers to take away the wounded when he found him. He said he wasn’t worried about his wife getting hit by a strike as he knew where the plane crashed which was opposite from the clinic. He became concerned, though, when he realized his wife might also be assisting at the crash site. She was and in high heels and jewelry. It was a dangerous place. Bucci said the rescuers worked on an unstable floor to evacuate the wounded which they did before it collapsed 45 minutes after the attack

Bucci had much to say also about the second 9/11 one year ago in Benghazi, Libya. He noted that when he worked for Rumsfeld, the government would ramp up security on that date as it was obviously a symbolic target. That policy appeared to end when the Obama administration took over.

Bucci said our embassies are especially vulnerable. He noted that in 2012 a career State Department officer noticed the British, Red Cross and others abandoning Benghazi and requested additional security. He was repeatedly rebuffed.

When the attack came, Bucci described it as a “well planned, well executed military operation.” He noted the skillful use of mortars by the Islamic attackers which indicated significant training. He said the justification for the failure of our military to intervene — that the firefight would be over and that intervention was “dangerous” — was “crappy”. He also said the administration knew within hours that it was not a spontaneous protest over an internet video but a planned attack.

He said he believed the Obama administration ignored security and hid the terrorism because it was trying to maintain a narrative during the home-stretch of the election that it had made the world safe.

Regarding the ongoing crisis in Syria, Bucci expressedĀ  sympathy for the rebels noting that Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad was a “horribly evil dictator.” He said that the Obama administration declined to act for two years resulting Assad’s killing of 100,000 of his citizens. He said, however, that intervention was a tricky thing as the best and most dedicated fighters of the rebels are led by a faction that is likely worse than Assad. He said many of those supporting Assad do so out of fear of the rebels rather than love for him.

He noted that there is a part of the rebellion that would be worthy of support but didn’t seem confident that would end up running things if the Assad were overthrown.

He said Putin is no friend of the United States and took pleasure in making Obama look foolish.

Bucci patiently answered questions from the audience ranging from 9/11 conspiracy theories — which he treated respectfully — to the state of Homeland Security, which he said is much improved over what it was in 2001. He noted that one of the biggest dangers we face is political correctness and the fear of tying Islamic extremism to terrorism. He cited Obama’s unwillingness to call the Fort Hood murders an act of terrorism as an example.

He said that Hezbollah and Al-Qaeda both have made contacts with Mexican drug lords and others in Latin America.

Bucci continued to answer questions after the event ended.

 

Steve Bucci Provides Inside 9/11 Insight

Boston Bombings: Coming to a City Near You?

By Hillel Zaremba

The tragic events of April 15 have justifiably reignited public concern about the nature and extent of domestic Islamist radicalization. Because the surviving bomber has beenĀ Ā  Mirandized by the Obama Department of Justice, it may be years before we know exactly what or who prompted Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to take the lives of innocent Americans. However, there is enough evidence to indicate that the mosque with which they associated may have played a role in their descent into depravity. And if their mosque somehow influenced them in this fashion, do other mosques in America present a similar danger?

WhatĀ  we know about the marathon bombers is that ā€œThe mosque attended by the two brothers (the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center-Cambridge [ISBCC]) ā€¦has been associated with other terrorism suspects [and] has invited radical speakers to a sister mosque in Bostonā€¦ā€

Both mosques are affiliated with theĀ  Muslim American Society (MAS) an American arm of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB ), the group that spawned Hamas and al-Qaeda and which seeks toĀ Ā  curtail civil liberties in Egypt andĀ Ā  impose Sharia on all.
None of these disturbing signs from Boston, which critics had pointed out for years, had any effect on the way these mosques were treated by those who run the Bay State. To the contrary, ISBCC was the recipient of tax-payer generosity in the form of a bargain-basement sale price on prime real estate for its new home as well as formal displays of friendship fromĀ  Gov. Deval Patrick andĀ  Mayor Tom Menino.

Nor were prominent spiritual leaders of Boston concerned by statements of intolerance cloaked in the garb of ā€œreligious expression.ā€ When Charles Jacobs, head ofĀ  Americans for Peace and Tolerance, brought inflammatory remarks by of one of the mosqueā€™s leaders to the publicā€™s attention, he was savaged by the Boston interfaith community, includingĀ  70 area rabbis.

Is such willful blindness unique to Boston or Massachusetts? Sadly, it is more likely that such attitudes are par for the course in every major American city with a sizable Muslim population. It certainly is the case in Philadelphia.

There are approximately 40 mosques in the City of Brotherly Love and its surrounding suburbs, as well as active branches of Brotherhood affiliates like CAIR and MSA, many of which are warmly welcomed by theĀ  Mayorā€™s Office of Faith Based Initiatives (MOFI), as well as a prominent local NGO, the Interfaith Center of Greater Philadelphia (ICGP). No one in either office has apparently sought to inquire just whom they are partnering with.

ā€œWe donā€™t have to endorse you to work with youā€ stated MOFIā€™s interim director, Reverend Malcolm Byrd, when asked if he vetted his constituent Muslim groups. He explained further that one ought to ā€œtrust the government to have the objectivity and integrity to scope out involvement with a community.ā€

Tell that to the families of 29-year old Krystle Campbel or 8-year old Martin Richard who lost their lives to the Boston bombers.

Abby Stamelman Hocky, ICGPā€™s executive director, sounded a similar tune. Despite being presented with sourced documentation of some of her Muslim partnersā€™ disturbing actions and pronouncements, the author was assured that if I really knew the leaders of these groups, I would be convinced they were, in truth, moderates.

To illustrate the dangerous naivetĆ© that pervades the cityā€™s elites, let us examine just one of the mosques that feels at home in Philadelphia, the Quba Institute (QI).

QI grew out of anĀ  organization founded by an African-American convert to Islam named Muhammad Ezzaldeen, who spent time in Egypt in the 1930s at precisely the same moment when Egyptian Hassan al-Banna was establishing the globalĀ  Muslim Brotherhood. Ezzaldeenā€™s group eventually grew into, and was renamed, the International Muslim Brotherhood, Inc. (IMB ) in Philadelphia in 1949.

Is this shared name just a coincidence?

In the late 1960s, the Philadelphia-based IMBĀ  forged partnerships with the Muslim Student Associations [MSA] of local Universities. The MSA is, according to aĀ  document seized by authorities and entered into evidence in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism-financing trial, one of the Brotherhoodā€™s 29 likeminded ā€œorganizations of our friendsā€ sharing the common goal of teaching Muslims ā€œthat their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ā€˜sabotagingā€™ its miserable house by their hands … so that … God’s religion [Islam] is made victorious over all other religions.ā€

QI/IMB hasĀ  boasted about its association with two Brotherhood luminaries: Abu Sulaiman and Hassan Turabi. Saudi-born Abdul-Hamid Abu Sulaiman (var. ā€œSulaymanā€) is a founding member of the MBā€™s intellectual beachhead in the U.S., the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT). From 1973-1979, he was the Secretary General of the Saudi-basedĀ  World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY) which publishes anti-Semitic, anti-Christian and anti-Shiā€™ah literature; as the executive director of the Center for Islamic Pluralism, put it: ā€œWAMY [is] the Saudi equivalent of the Hitler Youth: a hate-mongering, ultra-extremist group.ā€

The other Brotherhood bigwig associated with QI/IMB, Hassan Turabi, helped bring the National Islamic Front (NIF) to power in the Sudan and, once installed in power, established Sharia as the law of the land by force. Turabi was both a champion of Saddam Hussein and a longtime mentor, friend, and host to Osama bin Laden during his stay in Sudan.

According to Oliver Revell, the FBI’s former top counterterrorism official, ā€œanybody who brings in Hassan Turabi is supporting terrorists.ā€

We do not know exactly when QI/IMB hosted Sulaiman and Turabi and perhaps current leadership has turned over a new leaf, making past connections irrelevant. Perhaps not.
Qubaā€™s current spiritual leader and CEO,Ā  Anwar Muhaimin was born in the U.S. but grew up in Wahhabi-dominated Saudi Arabia with his brother, Anas (also an imam). When the brothers returned to America, they opened QI as a full-time non-public, non-licensed day school (pre-K-8)Ā  eligible to receive public funds through the school district of Philadelphia.

The brothers have a reputation for moderation within the local ā€œdialogueā€ community yet in a (now scrubbed) February 2010 Facebook posting, Anwar Muhaimin favorably cited anĀ Ā  article which dismissed claims that Anwar al-Awlaki was a terrorist, months after it had become clear that the Fort Hood massacre perpetrated by Major Nidal Hasan had been inspired in part by Awlakiā€™s teachings and correspondence. A few months later, in July 2010, the imam spoke up for reporter Octavia Nasr, whose support for Holocaust-denying and suicide bombing booster Ayatollah Fadlallah led to her dismissal by CNN. Other Facebook postings include condemnation of the Peter King congressional hearings on radical Islam (March 2011), characterization of researcher David Yerushalmi as a ā€œWhite Supremacistā€ (April 2011) and letting his Facebook ā€œfriendsā€ know that ā€œNationalists pose [a] bigger threat than al-Qaeda.ā€

Should we then take seriously brother Anas Muhaiminā€™s mystified reaction to the March 2010 arrest of Sharif Mobley, who grew up and studied at QI/IMB? Mobley was arrested in Yemen for ties to Anwar al-Awlaki and al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. American law enforcement officials said they had been keeping their eyes on him for some time. When questioned by reporters, AnasĀ  declared that he had ā€œstrongly discouraged him from going to Yemen. I told him Yemen was very, very unstable.ā€

Muhaiminā€™s protestations of puzzlement sound strikingly similar to thoseĀ Ā  uttered by ISBCCā€™s leaders after the Boston bombings. In the face of public revulsion and subsequent media scrutiny, mosque leaders profess to be as clueless as the next guy as to where these young men could have picked up their ideas. Perhaps they need to take a closer look at their own teachings.
An older version of the QI/IMB mosqueā€™s website is illustrative. Patrons of Masjid Quba are told to ā€œspecifically reject terrorism as method for forwarding any Islamic or Muslim causeā€ but there is one important caveat: QI/IMBā€™s members can engage in jihad al-saif (armed warfare) ā€œin the context of self-defense or guarding the sacred, holy lands of Islamā€ (authorā€™s emphasis).

What constitutes the ā€œsacred, holy lands of Islamā€ is open to some interpretative leeway. Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhoodā€™s Palestinian branch considers the entire state of Israel ā€œsacred, holy lands of Islam,ā€ legitimating its murderous attacks on innocent civilians on that basis. Osama bin Laden justified his attacks against the U.S. because he viewed the American presence in Saudi Arabia as an infidel occupation of ā€œof the Two Holy Places.ā€

WeĀ  now know that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev viewed his crime as standing up for Muslims all over the world (ā€œWhen you attack one Muslim, you attack all Muslimsā€). In the Islamist view, all Muslims are part of a universal ummah and any action taken against Muslims anywhere becomes a provocation for retaliation by a fellow-Muslim anywhere else.

Which view dominates in the confines of the Quba Institute or the other Muslim worship centers of Philadelphia and other American cities? Do Muslims in these places truly learn to consider their fellow citizens as brothers and sisters regardless of their faith? Or do they adhere to their prophetā€™s injunction ā€“ ā€œO you who believe! Do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends!ā€ (Qurā€™an 5:51)

When asked to help apply Justice Brandeisā€™ ā€œdisinfectant of sunshineā€ to all area faith-groups by asking them to open their doors, sermons and curricula to public scrutiny, Philadelphiaā€™s Interfaith Center demurred, citing more pressing issues. Whether an examination of what is taught and preached in area mosques would produce a greater sense of comfort or its opposite remains to be seen. But greater transparency is long overdue, and may help ensure that there will be fewer Tsarnaevs lurking in our midst.

For the record, in April 2010, Muhaimin responded favorably to anĀ  article repudiating al-Awlaki by fellow Philadelphian Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad.

Hillel Zaremba is associate director ofĀ  Islamist Watch,
a project of the Philadelphia-based Middle East Forum, which seeks to
combat the ideas and institutions of non-violent Islamism in the United
States and throughout the West.

Boston Bombings: Coming to a City Near You?

Boston Bombings: Coming to a City Near You?

Mosques Were Exempted By Obama Spymasters

Mosques Were Exempted By Obama Spymasters — If you were among those wondering how with the Obama Administration’sĀ  surveillance of just about everybody in the United States they missed the Boston bombers, well it turns out they were exempting mosques.

Since October 2011, mosques have been off-limits to FBI agents reports Investors Business Daily. No more surveillance or undercover string operations without high-level approval from a special oversight body at the Justice Department dubbed the Sensitive Operations Review Committee.

And the names of the chairman, members and staff are kept secret says IBD..

The panel was set up under pressure from Islamist groups who complained about FBI stings at mosques.

Hat tip Bob Guzzardi

Mosques Were Exempted By Obama Spymasters

Mosques Were Exempted By Obama Spymasters

Patriot Act Author Says Obama Abused Law

Patriot Act Author Says Obama Abused Law — Attorney General Eric Holder and the Obama Administration have used the cover of the Patriot Act to collect the phone records of essentially every call made by millions of Verizon customers.

Congressman James Sensenbrenner (R-Wisc) is the author of the law.

Here is what he says about what the Obama Administration has done:

ā€œAs the author of the Patriot Act, I am extremely troubled by the
FBIā€™s interpretation of this legislation. While I believe the Patriot
Act appropriately balanced national security concerns and civil rights, I
have always worried about potential abuses,

ā€œThe Bureauā€™s broad application for phone records was made under the
so-called business records provision of the Act.Ā  I do not believe the
broadly drafted FISA order is consistent with the requirements of the
Patriot Act. Seizing phone records of millions of innocent people is
excessive and un-American.ā€

Patriot Act Author Says Obama Abused Law

Patriot Act Author Says Obama Abused Law

Obama Says No Attacks Since 9/11/2001

Obama Says No Attacks Since 9/11/2001 — Hey, have you heard “there have been no large-scale attacks” on the United States since 9/11/2001?

That’s what President Obama said at yesterday’s (May 23) national security speech at National Defense University.

So next time you go to some major sporting or cultural event and see some swarthy guy leave a backpack and walk away, don’t sweat it.

The real mystery is how the people who voted for this guy can show their faces in public without passing out from the shame of their deed.

 

Obama Says No Attacks Since 9/11/2001