The CNN presidential debate set for September 16 will include eleven candidates, not ten. They are the same ten candidates who were in the August Fox News debate, plus Carly Fiorina.
The secondary debate, set for two hours earlier, will only include five candidates. See this story. …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
The mainstream media often portrays the unfortunate random killing of police officers as analogous to a larger “war on cops.” The reality is that there is a concerted public relations effort underway, on the part of law enforcement, with the intention of stemming the growing public calls for more oversight and accountability.
If law enforcement were genuine about wanting to save the lives of cops, they would begin by attempting to put focus on the out of control epidemic of police suicides, which dwarfs the number of cops fatally shot the line of duty.
The last year on public record for police …read more
Washington D.C. — Chuck Rosenberg, the new chief of the Drug Enforcement Administration, who admitted just after his hiring that he is “no expert on drugs,” has recently declared heroin to be a “threat to national security.” He went on to claim that he suspects drug dealers of funding terrorist organizations and insinuated that the agency had evidence of this happening. However, his statement was not convincing, and never actually offered up any real evidence to prove his claims.
There may not be evidence that drug smugglers are funding terrorists, but there actually is a great deal of evidence that connects …read more
[You may be wondering why the Dark Android Blog, which, obviously, concentrates on Android, is discussing Apple products. It’s a fair question, and it simply comes down to keeping an eye on the alternatives. And Apple is one such alternative to what we talk about at the Dark Android Project.]
The date was September 9th, 2015…a day like no other. Well, that’s not exactly true. Days like this have come often in the past decade or so. It’s a day for another major “Apple Event” (which almost makes it sound like its some kind of spatial anomaly, maybe for some they …read more
While “police brutality and false claims of police abuse can be minimized,” isolated and increasingly rare violent deaths of on-duty police officers should be seen as part of a “war on police” being waged primarily by Marxist-aligned black radicals, contends The New American magazine. The September 21st issue of that fortnightly periodical, entitled “Police Under Fire,” inaugurates a renewed national “Support Your Local Police” campaign by the John Birch Society, which publishes the magazine.
The issue’s tone is set by the cover illustration, which depicts a police officer clad in black stormtrooper attire facing what appears to be a hostile demonstration. …read more
John McAfee, a fairly famous software developer, says he is founding a new party and will be its presidential candidate. Here is his FEC form, filed on September 8. Here is an article about him. Thanks to Darcy Richardson for this news. …read more
Afghan officials reported this Sunday that a US airstrike killed 11 counter-narcotics police officers that were working for the government of Afghanistan to track down drug smugglers in the region. This attack is the deadliest recorded occurrence of friendly-fire throughout the whole course of the war in Afghanistan.
According to The Guardian;
A US military spokesman, Colonel Brian Tribus, denied that Nato or US forces had conducted any strikes in Helmand on 6 September, but said they had launched an air raid that day in Maiwand district of neighbouring Kandahar province.
However, the area where Afghan officials claim the attack took place is …read more
On September 8, Hillary Clinton released these recommendations for campaign finance law changes. She favors public funding for candidates for federal office.
The statement does not acknowledge that the U.S. already has public funding for presidential candidates. The statement seems to hint that it is too easy now for candidates to get primary season matching funds. The statement says, “Qualifying contribution thresholds. To qualify for matching funds, candidates must first demonstrate that they have sufficient public support for a viable campaign by raising a minimum number of small donations from their constituents.”
Current law says candidates qualify for …read more
