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Mississippi will not ask the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse the decision of the State Supreme Court putting Willie Wilson on the Democratic presidential primary ballot. Also the state is sending revised ballots, containing Wilson’s name, to the overseas absentee voters. But if any overseas absentee voter, or any other absentee voter, already cast the first ballot, it counts. See this story, which focuses on an argument between the Secretary of State and the Democratic Party over who should accept blame for the mistake that left Wilson’s name off the ballot. …read more

Hacktivists found and released his personal information including his phone number, and returned the favor. …read more

The Independent Party is entitled to nominate by primary, the first party in Oregon to have a government-adminstered primary since the Progressive Party had one in 1914. Oregon election officials plan to also provide the party with a presidential primary. It isn’t clear yet whether there will be any candidates’ names on that presidential primary. Either the party will be permitted to have presidential candidates’ names that have been suggested by the party, or else the ballot won’t have any names and the outcome will be decided by write-in votes. …read more

Is Paris Climate Treaty a ‘Green’ Slush Fund for looters and kleptocrats? Retweet

Many third world dictators will get billions because of last year’s Paris climate talks. This was the price third world “governments” charged for supporting the resulting treaty. You will pay for this “green” slush fund for dictators. Please tell your elected reps to oppose this. Do this using our campaign to “End Aid to Dependent Dictators.” The hardwired message for that campaign reads…
End all foreign aid, especially to dictators.
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Oppose the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and all Paris …read more

For stepping in front a cop who was about to kill her dog, a woman was assaulted and charged — but the video saved her at trial. …read more

Is Paris Climate Treaty a ‘Green’ Slush Fund for looters and kleptocrats? Retweet Many third world dictators will get billions because of last year’s Paris climate talks. This was the …

Your tax dollars going to looters and kleptocrats

We lost Harry Browne ten years ago today. He was a co-founder of DownsizeDC.org. The best-selling author and former presidential candidate was also a friend and mentor to me. His work lives on at HarryBrowne.org.

Harry was a fan of the Read the Bills Act and of what became our Educate the Powerful System. But…
One Subject at a Time and Write the Laws bills didn’t yet exist.
The 2008 financial crisis hadn’t happened.
Only a couple states had medical marijuana, let alone full legalization.
And who could have predicted Edward Snowden?
Harry would’ve had something unique and useful to say about all these subjects. Instead, …read more

Harry Browne (1933-2006) was a successful investment advisor for 30 years. He wrote 13 books that sold more than 2 million copies. In both 1996 and 2000 he was the nominee of the Libertarian Party for President of the United States. He made hundreds of media appearances and traveled to 92 cities in 30 states in 2000 alone. He appeared on all state ballots in both elections, except for one in 2000.

He was the originator of the Permanent Portfolio concept, a consultant to the Permanent Portfolio Family of Funds, and author of Harry Browne’s Special Report — a financial newsletter …read more

We’re very excited to make bitcoin purchases faster and easier. Today we’re launching a new Coinbase product (in beta) to users in the United States: Buy bitcoin instantly with debit cards. Since there are over 5.2B debit cards in circulation, we’re confident this capability will make it significantly easier both for new users to get their first bitcoin, and for existing users to get bitcoin quickly.

Note that we are launching this feature to 1% of U.S. customers today, and plan to roll it out slowly to 100% over the coming months. Users with this feature enabled can add a debit …read more