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(RT) — Being shocked by a plug socket feels bad enough. Ever wondered what’s it like to be shot with a police Taser stun gun? The moment a man is tasered has been caught on camera in super slow motion by YouTube wizards The Slow Mo Guys.

Equipped with a high-speed camera, the team traveled to Taser International headquarters in Scottsdale, Arizona, to have their subject stunned with a Taser X26, the company’s most popular model, at 28,500 frames per second.

The first thing you get to see is a mixture of pink and yellow confetti that explodes from the Taser when …read more

On September 10, a Colorado state court put Karla Heard-Price on the ballot for Colorado Springs school board. She had initially been kept off because two forms were submitted late. The candidate did nothing to fight the administrative ruling. But some voters who wanted to vote for her then filed a lawsuit to get her on the ballot, and the case won, so she is now on the ballot. See this story.
Previously, the Eighth Circuit and the Ninth Circuit had ruled that voters have standing to challenge ballot access laws, even if no candidate-plaintiff is in …read more

The Star, daily newspaper for Toronto, has this article, suggesting that support is rising in Canada for proportional representation. Thanks to Rick Hasen for the link. …read more

Tampa, FL – On the afternoon of August 26, while filming MacDill Air Force Base from a public park, a U.S. veteran was illegally detained and bullied by police for legally recording the installation.
The filming of government buildings has been ruled to be protected under the First Amendment but is often cited as a reason for being detained by police who are either unaware or willfully ignorant of this right.
Flexing his rights immediately upon contact, the gentleman, who is in a wheelchair, can be heard asking police if he is “free to go or being detained,” to which Officer Yoeman …read more

New York, NY (RT) — Surveillance videotape released by the New York Police Department shows Officer James Frascatore ambushing tennis star James Blake in what appears to be a startling, illegal arrest. Frascatore has been sued four times for excessive force in the past.

Missing from the surveillance tape, released on Friday, is any indication that Officer Frascatore, 38, followed procedures or read James Blake his Miranda rights before arresting him.
On releasing the video, the NYPD issued a statement saying the Internal Affairs Bureau had interviewed Blake about the incident on Thursday.
“The NYPD is releasing video footage from the September 9th …read more

On September 11, Rick Perry dropped out of the Republican presidential race. He had been one of the five debaters set for the CNN September 16 debate at 6 p.m. That should mean there are now only four candidates in that debate: Rick Santorum, Bobby Jindal, George Pataki, and Lindsey Graham.
There are eleven candidates in the debate set for the same day at 8 p.m. The irony is that the candidates in the 6 p.m. debate will have more speaking time than the “more important” candidates in the 8 p.m. debate. Those times are Pacific …read more

When one looks at how much proprietary hardware and software is out there today (think Apple, Microsoft, and Alphabet/Google services and products), it may be hard to believe that the movement to try and open up at least the software-end of this problem has been around for 30 years now. And it is a problem. If you can’t look at the code of the software you are using, you can’t be sure it’s doing what “they” say it does, nor can you genuinely have control of that software.
Fortunately, our “closed garden” present isn’t without its heroic opponents: Enter the Free …read more

The Mayor of Kingston, New York, Shayne Gallo, is a Democrat, and he was defeated for re-nomination in the Democratic Party primary held on September 10. But he was also a candidate in the Green Party primary. Election officials will soon reveal whether he got enough write-ins in the Green Party primary to be on the November ballot as the Green nominee. See this story. UPDATE: the Green Party write-ins have now been tallied and Shayne Gallo lost the Green Party primary also. His Democratic opponent, Steve Noble, won the Green primary. See this …read more

On September 9, a Pennsylvania state trial court ruled in favor of Ray Tonkin, who is running for re-election as District Attorney of Pike County. Tonkin is a registered Republican. He lost the race for the Republican nomination in this year’s primary, but he won the Democratic primary on write-in votes at the primary.
Some challengers then tried to remove him from the general election ballot on the grounds that he didn’t pay the $100 filing fee. He had already paid one filing fee when he filed in the Republican primary, but the challengers said that fee can’t …read more

#Iran. 6 ways to avoid being a media dupe. Retweet

With members of Congress still working to defeat the Iran deal and leading Presidential candidates rallying against it, today’s Action is timely. The editorial, below, was just published as the featured “Highlight” on AntiWar.com.

We encourage you to go to AntiWar.com to read it. Then, use the points made in that article, to send a letter to Congress.

This editorial reports things you wouldn’t know about Iran and the U.S. Government’s history with it. We preview the editorial, below…

Don’t be a media dupe about Iran
6 things the propaganda machine won’t tell you

by Jim …read more