Obama Barrack (Barack H. Obama)

Obama Barrack (Barack H. Obama)

Barack Obama - American politician, 44th President of the United States (2009-2017).

Biography

Obama is a mulatto, but, unlike most black Americans, not a descendant of slaves, but the son of a student from Kenya and a white American (Stanley Ann Dunham).

Future US president Barack Obama plays on the beach with his maternal grandfather Stanley Armour Dunham. Hawaii. UNITED STATES. 1965

A graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was also the first African-American editor of the university's Harvard Law Review in its history.

Barack Obama, 1980

In his youth, Barack Obama was very fond of smoking grass, for which he received the nickname "Barack Oganga."

Barack Obama while attending Harvard University, 1988

University of Chicago law professor Barack Hussain Obama with colleagues. 1995

2009: Election as President of the United States

Barack Obama is sitting on the same bus, the same place where activist Rosa Parks was sitting. On the evening of December 1, 1955, a 42-year-old seamstress got on a bus in the city of Montgomery, Alabama, to return home from work. She took a seat in the row just behind white-only reserved seats. When the bus was filled with new passengers along the route, all the seats were occupied. Then the conductor, following the then rules, demanded that Parks give up his place to a new white passenger. But she refused. She was arrested for violating segregation laws and within half an hour was found guilty of violating public order. However, Rosa's act instantly made her the banner of the human rights movement, and black Montgomery residents boycotted public transport - it lasted more than a year, inflicting heavy losses on bus companies.

U.S. presidents' policy approval ratings by weeks after taking office

IT Policy

2015: "Fighting Terrorism" with IT Companies

In early December 2015, US President Barack Obama in his televised address said that he hopes for the help of technology companies in the fight against terrorist threats, which, according to the head of state, are entering a new phase. This statement makes you think about whether the American leader wants to take advantage of the war with terrorists in order to get IT manufacturers to open access to their encrypted communications to the authorities, ComputerWorld notes.

On Sunday, December 6, 2015 (Monday morning Moscow time), Barack Obama made an address to the nation, the main topic of which was countering terrorism - both abroad and in the United States, where this threat is becoming more and more real.

Obama under the guise of fighting terrorism forces IT companies to open access to encrypted data

"I would like to urge leaders among high-tech companies and law enforcement forces to complicate the ability of terrorists to use technology to evade justice," the US president said.

Obama's speech to the American people was preceded by a terrorist attack in California, hosted by Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik. They killed 14 and injured 21 people, the perpetrators were shot dead by police during their detention.

According to law enforcement agencies, the couple committed a crime out of extremist motives: on her Facebook page, Malik wrote about the support of the Islamic State (a terrorist group is banned in Russia).

"As the Internet blurs the borders between countries, we see more and more attempts by terrorists to poison the minds of people," said Barack Obama.

He did not specify how the government is going to work with participants in the IT industry in the fight against terrorism. Earlier, FBI Director James Comey called for an "active discussion" on the issue of encryption of communications, since such technologies can help keep people safe.

At the same time, Komi said that the US authorities intend to seek a compromise with IT companies instead of looking for legislative loopholes against the use of encryption on the Web.

In May 2015, more than 140 leading US technology companies sent a letter to Barack Obama asking him not to be able to legislatively provide intelligence services with access to encrypted data from smartphones and other communication devices.^[1]

Use of IT

2014: US Accounts Chamber: More than $150m wasted on "Obama's most important site"

More than $150 million was wasted on the HealthCare.gov website, the cornerstone of health care President USA Barack Obama's reform. This conclusion was reached after the audit by the US Government Accountability Office (GAO). In total, to date, more than $840 million of taxpayer funds have already been spent on the system^[2] has been^[3]

According to Mashable, the government has repeatedly changed the requirements for the functionality of the HealthCare.gov portal, which confused contractors and forced them to redo the work already done. One of these contractors was Accenture, whose contract value increased by 92% in less than 6 months - from $91 million to more than $175 million.

Initially, in September 2011, the announced cost of developing a website on which US citizens could calculate subsidies and buy health insurance was $56 million. And by February 2014, expenses had already reached $209 million. The situation is similar with the costs of the accompanying technology platform: initially it was planned to spend $30 million on it, while the volume of actually incurred expenses exceeded $85 million, reports Reuters.

GAO revealed a number of violations committed during the implementation of the project, which earned with a creak in October 2013.

So, for example, contractors were not provided with a single agreed work plan. In addition, a subsidiary of the US Department of Health and Human Services, acting as the customer of the project, sent instructions to contractors to perform work in the absence of key technical requirements that were simply not formed at that time.

It was also found that federal monitoring organizations did not adequately check the activities of contractors. According to the National Journal, the GAO has discovered four dozen unmotivated permits for the issuance of budget funds totaling over $30 million.

2013: 'The King of Twitter' turns out to be naked

The online version of the British The Daily Mail, based on data from the StatusPeople search portal, examined the most popular Twitter accounts of the leaders of the Democratic and Republican parties in the United States, among which four were chosen: President Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, First Lady Michelle Obama and the White House Public Relations Service. Of Barack Obama's 36.9 million readers, as much as 53% - 19.5 million - turned out to be fake, behind which real people are not the^[4]

If we also discard those "users" who practically do not visit Twitter, then the American president has about 20% of real readers, the newspaper claims.

Michelle Obama, who owns two Twitter accounts, has 36% of non-existent users, but in total she has even more "freak followers" - 23.4 million. But in reality, the first lady is read by 26% of all her subscribers.

Joe Biden has 46% of fake readers, and real, like Obama, about 20%.

The White House has 37% of subscribers - bots, and 25% of active readers.

Election expenses

Republican and Democratic spending on presidential campaigns

Family

Newlyweds Barack Obama and Michelle Robinson. Chicago. 1992

Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama, May 26, 1996.

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