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San Luis Obispo, CA — On Dec. 11, 2001, Dee Torres-Hill, manager of the Prado Daycare Center, told police that a mother, Elizabeth Carroll punched her own 5-year-old daughter in the nose. Investigators would later determined that Carroll didn’t punch her child. However, the damage was already done.
Even though Torres-Hill’s allegations were found to have no factual basis, other day care center employees continued to make accusations of child abuse against the parents, which resulted in their 3 children being taken from them, and placed in the custody of an alleged child rapist.
The parents, Richard and Elizabeth Carroll, who were …read more

Oklahoma City, OK – A former Valley Brook police officer, Courtney Schlinke, 21, is locked up and facing accusations remarkably similar to those faced by former Oklahoma City police officer, Daniel Holtzclaw.
Schlinke was arrested Tuesday afternoon by Oklahoma City police officers and is in the Oklahoma County jail on a number of felony charges. She was arrested on 33 complaints: 16 rape complaints, eight oral sodomy complaints, one burglary complaint and eight indecent or lewd acts with a child under 16 complaints.
Similarly, Holtzclaw is currently facing 36 charges, after being accused of sexually assaulting 13 women while on patrol.
The former …read more

Phil Huckelberry has this article in Gapers Block, advocating that Illinois depend on candidate filing fees instead of petitions, for ballot access. Gapers Block is a well-read on-line Chicago newspaper about government and politics. …read more

The Tulsa World, in this editorial, congratulates the Oklahoma Democratic Party for letting independents vote in its future primaries. …read more

One of the side benefits of having a Dark Android-based device, particularly if you’re just using a tablet, is you don’t have an “always on” internet connection. Of course, having a persistent data connection isn’t inherently a bad thing. If we lived in a world–or even just a village–that had open WiFi (no passwords or gateways) everywhere, or if we didn’t live in a “Surveillance Society”, I think persistent data connections would be fine things.
But we don’t live in that world.
We live in a world that–to go cliche–makes “1984” look like a prequel to modern society. Everything we do is …read more

#CISA: Will you let them get away with it? #tlot Retweet
Congress is trying to block your use of encryption. They say they’re doing it for public safety. Maybe we should hand them our keys too, perhaps give them all of our credit card numbers.
In the meantime, I took the following, two simple actions. I invite you to do likewise.I wrote a letter to President Obama urging him to veto the CISA “cybersecurity” (illegal spying) bill.
You can read the letter on our blog.
You can copy-and-paste or edit that letter, or write you own letter to the President …read more

There are some days where you just wake up in the morning, look at the various security news going around online, and you practically want to spit out your tea and scream, “Holy Hell!”
Yeah, today–after reading about the potential Stagefright vulnerability on Android–was one of those mornings. And this is really why I started the Dark Android Project in the first place: Bringing you real solutions to real problems that affect your privacy and security through your Android device (and more).

So what we have here is a media playback tool that is a core part of Android–called Stagefright–that can be …read more

Sort of a byproduct of my Dark Android Project, I’ve recently made it my personal mission to heed the words of Edward Snowden and others in the modern-day cypherpunk movement: “Avoid Facebook and Google”. Since I have some degree of reach within anarchist and liberty-oriented circles, I’ve largely concentrated my efforts within those circles to get people away from these two companies in a multitude of ways, including by highlighting concerning news via my podcast Sovryn Tech, also through the plans I’ve laid out–and continue to lay out–through the Dark Android Project, and through my various speaking engagements, and of …read more

Zimbabwe, Africa – One of Africa’s most famous lions, Cecil, was killed on July 1 by a American tourist who apparently paid a safari owner $55,000 to come to Zimbabwe for the opportunity to kill a lion.
Authorities in Zimbabwe are searching for the American tourist, Walter Palmer, a Minnesota dentist. Palmer is reported to have lured the 13-year-old out of the protected national park within which he lived, using food, and then shoot the lion with a bow and arrow, according to an exclusive report by The Telegraph.
According to a report in The Guardian:
The 13-year-old lion was wearing a GPS …read more

Candidates who intend to run in the South Carolina Republican Party presidential primary will be required to pay a filing fee of $40,000. There is no alternate method for getting on the ballot, even for candidates who say they don’t have the money.
Candidates file with the party, but, by law, the party gives $20,000 of that fee to the government to help pay for election administration. The party keeps the other $20,000 and the party need not pay any election administration costs for its primary.
The filing deadline for the Republican presidential primary is September 30, 2015. …read more