Trump Releases New Ad: Politicians Having Fun On Our Dime While The World Is Burning

GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump posted a video to Instagram on Thursday that bizarrely tried to show Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton dancing while Benghazi burned.

The short video was filled with ominous music. It began by showing an Islamic State militant holding a knife, then cut to a photo of President Obama smiling while sitting in a golf cart.

From there, it moved on to video showing the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya burning following a terror attack in 2012. Then it cut to a video of Clinton dancing with her husband, former President Bill Clinton, at what appears to be a New Year's Eve celebration.

The Instagram video ended with text that read: "Politicians are having fun on our dime while the world is burning," followed by Trump's campaign logo and slogan.

Trump, whose financial disclosures showed he owns at least 15 golf clubs which generate about $190 million in revenue, posted a message on Instagram alongside the video that said simply: "Not under my watch."

Via: Fox News

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Taxpayers Need to Protect Themselves When IRS Can’t

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It probably seemed harmless last year to give a big shout out on your Facebook page to your first grade teacher. Unfortunately, cyber-thieves can use that information to steal your identity and break into your online accounts.

That’s what happened to the IRS. The tax agency is the latest target of cyber criminals who used so-called knowledge-based authentication information to illegally access the tax returns of about 100,000 U.S. taxpayers.

The breach at the IRS is particularly onerous because the information included on tax returns is especially detailed and personal – information that includes back account numbers, childrens’ names and ages, health care expenses, addresses of various residences, etc…

Knowledge-based authentication is commonly used by Web sites as an added measure beyond Social Security numbers and dates of birth. Account holders are asked questions such as their mother’s maiden name or the name of their first grade teacher or the account holder’s favorite color. In other words questions whose answers only the account user would know.

“Those are the same questions when resetting a password and they pop up in a variety of places,” said Robert Siciliano, an identity theft expert with BestIDTheftcompanys.com.

The problem is that much of that information can be gleaned from account user’s social media sites such as Facebook and Instagram, where people tend to post every detail of their life, including their mother’s maiden name, the name of their first grade teacher and their favorite color.

Via: Fox Business

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OBAMA’S OFFICE OF DIGITAL STRATEGY BIGGER THAN GEORGE W. BUSH’S ENTIRE PRESS STAFF

President Obama, long heralded as the ‘First Digital President,’ has built up his Office of Digital Strategy to includes 14 employees.

The Washington Post’s Julia Eilperin examines Obama’s rapid shift to digital media, creating their own content to engage users not only in the United States but around the world. The team creates specialized content to engage with Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Medium, Instagram, YouTube, and even Google+.

According to the article, Obama’s 14-member staff of the White House Office of Digital Strategy is larger than the entire press secretary’s office of George W. Bush in 2005 — a crew of 12.

In June 2009, Obama himself only had a 13 person press staff.

Via: Breitbart

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