Rob Astorino, the Republican nominee for Governor of New York last year, and that creator of the “Stop Common Core Party”, discusses in this interview why he re-named the party the “Reform Party” and what it will stand for. Thanks to Bill Van Allen for the link. …read more
On February 19, a California Superior Court Judge put Glendale School Board candidate Nayiri Nahabedian on the April 7 ballot. She had missed the deadline for filing her declaration of candidacy, because she had relied on erroneous information from election officials. See this story. …read more
Last summer, we partnered with Dell to bring bitcoin payments to Dell’s customers in the United States. With nearly $60 billion in annual sales, the announcement made Dell the largest ecommerce company to officially accept bitcoin at the time.Today, we’re excited to share that we’re working with Dell to expand bitcoin as a payment option for Dell’s customers in the United Kingdom and Canada, making Dell the largest merchant to accept bitcoin internationally.We are pleased to partner with Dell once again as we expand bitcoin acceptance worldwide. For more information on the integration, visit http://www.dell.com/bitcoin. …read more
The Atlantic Monthly has this article by Noah Gordon, which explains proportional representation and suggests that the United States would benefit from trying it out. Thanks to Green Party Watch for the link. …read more
Do you want to send small amounts of bitcoin to friends across the web? Buy and sell things globally with your mobile device? Collect tips on Twitch for great content? You’re in luck – there’s a Coinbase app for that. There is a growing array of applications built with the Coinbase API that enable you to do things that weren’t possible before Bitcoin. As a Coinbase user, you can benefit from the innovation happening in the Bitcoin world by securely connecting your Coinbase account to third party applications with the OAuth2 protocol.Here’s a few of the most exciting apps that …read more
Chicago, Illinois – Last month, we reported that large numbers of military police officers who were formerly stationed at the infamous torture prisons at Guantánamo Bay were getting jobs as local cops.
Now, a new investigation by the Guardian has revealed that Former Guantánamo Bay interrogator Richard Zuley was already torturing people as a Chicago detective before he was ever stationed at the military prison.
In fact, it was reported that he was one of the most brutal officers in the city during his 25 years with the police department.
During his time on the police force, between 1977 and 2007, Zuley behaved …read more
Margate, FL– If there is one thing you can do to actually get kicked off a police force, Renzo, a 4-year-old Belgian Malinois police k-9 has figured it out. You do not mess with donuts.
Last week, Officer Carl DiBlasi, 53, was parked in a Dunkin Donuts parking lot meeting up with a sergeant. The sergeant was reportedly petting Renzo through the open window of DiBlasi’s police vehicle when the dog lunged at her. Despite the officer trying to contain her, the dog then jumped out the window and began to charge a third officer.
DiBlasi was screaming the …read more
New York Assemblymember Brian Kavanagh (D-Manhattan) has introduced AB 3389, to require better designed ballots. Here is information about the bill. It is not easy to read the bill summary or the bill itself and completely understand what it would do, although the bill requires larger font size for the names of candidates. Here is(More)… …read more
New legislation proposed in Montana would make it illegal for police to use licence plate scanners for tracking and database creation without cause or warrant. Unfortunately, federal agents would not be under state jurisdiction and would thus be able to use licence scanners on state property if they chose to.
However, state and local police departments would be prevented from using the devices for law enforcement purposes.
The bill, HB 344 states that “an agency or employee of the state or any subdivision of the state may not use, either directly or indirectly, a license plate scanner on any public highway.”
As expected, …read more
